Celebrating Modern Art

by Benezra, Neal David; Garrels, Gary; Auping, Michael; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• ISBN13: 9780520227583
• ISBN10: 0520227581
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The Anderson Collection is among the greatest private collections of modern and contemporary art in the United States. As the highlight of its year 2000 exhibition schedule, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present the collection, featuring more than 330 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by nearly 140 artists of international renown. This beautiful large-format volume, published in conjunction with the exhibition, features essays by leading art critics and scholars as well as lavish color plates of 285 of the works, providing an extraordinary overview of modern and contemporary art. Both the exhibition and book divide this outstanding collection into five sections. "The New York School" features works by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein, among others. "Art in California" includes works by Robert Arneson, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, and Wayne Theibaud. "Contemporary Art" presents work from the 1970s and 1980s by Scott Burton, Susan Rothenberg, Terry Winters, Elizabeth Murray, and others. "Modern Sculpture" offers an impressive array of works by such artists as Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Rodin, and Alexander Calder. "Works on Paper" showcases drawings, watercolors, and gouaches by a range of artists, which mirrors the scope of the collection as a whole. Overview essays for each of the five sections are written respectively by Jack Flam, Bill Berkson, Neal Benezra, Michael Brenson, and John Elderfield. A number of shorter texts address particular highlights of the collection. Gary Garrels's introductory essay discusses the Anderson Collection as a whole and provides a context for its role as one of the most important private collections in the United States.

Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments	6	(10)
David A. Ross
The Anderson Collection: An Introduction	10	(6)
Gary Garrels
A Modern Touch: The History of the Anderson Collection	16	(16)
Rachel Teagle
A Look Back	32	(4)
William Rubin
New York School
The New York School	36	(14)
Jack Flam
Jackson Pollock's Lucifer	50	(3)
T. J. Clark
Pedestrian Colors: Robert Rauschenberg's Collection	53	(3)
Branden W. Joseph
Philip Guston: Perpetual Mutation	56	(5)
Michael Auping
Plates	61	(51)
California Art
Ceremonial Surfaces: California Art in the Anderson Collection	112	(10)
Bill Berkson
Frank Lobdell: On the Edge of Abstraction	122	(2)
Walter Hopps
Bruce Conner: Black-and-White Mysteries	124	(4)
Peter Boswell
Robert Therrien: What is Close	128	(3)
Julia Brown
Plates	131	(53)
Contemporary Art
Renewing Modernism	184	(12)
Neal Benezra
Elizabeth Murray: A New Way of Painting	196	(3)
David Cateforis
Plates	199	(41)
Modern Sculpture
Sometimes Out of Sight, Never Out of Mind: The Story of the Hand in Modernist Sculpture	240	(19)
Michael Brenson
Blaze and Power: David Smith's Five Ciarcs	259	(3)
Valerie Fletcher
Plates	262	(24)
Works on Paper
Works on Paper	286	(14)
John Elderfield
Vija Celmins's Vision of Nature and the Nature of Surface	300	(2)
Carolyn Kastner
Plates	302	(49)
Catalogue of the Exhibition	351	(43)
Index of Artists	394