The M.H. de Young Museum is the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier fine arts museum with a collection totaling more than 27,000 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings and decorative objects dating from 1670 to the present day. Located at the heart of the city’s Golden Gate Park, the museum was established in 1895 and is […]
Richard Diebenkorn at the de Young Museum – San Francisco

June 22, 2013 through September 29, 2013 – “Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years – 1953 to 1966,” examines one of the most complex periods in the contemporary artist’s distinguished career, highlighting his shifting conceptions of abstraction and figuration through 131 paintings and works on paper. This exhibition is the first to focus specifically on the […]
Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis at the de Young Museum – San Francisco

January 26, 2013 through June 2, 2013 – The de Young Museum presents a selection of 35, seventeenth century Dutch Golden Age paintings on loan from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the first time in 30 years masterpieces from its prestigious collection including Vermeer’s famed “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (1665) have […]
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San Francisco Museums and Current Exhibitions SAN FRANCISCO ASIAN ART MUSEUM TOMB TREASURES: NEW DISCOVERIES FROM CHINA’S HAN DYNASTY FEBRUARY 17, 2017 THROUGH MAY 28, 2017 THE SCULPTURAL TURN: JAPANESE CERAMICS FROM THE KEMPNER AND STEIN COLLECTION NOVEMBER 9, 2016 THROUGH JUNE 4, 2017 SAINTS AND KINGS: ARTS, CULTURE AND THE LEGACY OF […]