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John E. Buchanan Jr., director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and former director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, died Friday. The cause was pancreatic cancer; he was 58. Mr. Buchanan was director of the Dixon from 1986 to 1994, when he resigned to take the position of director of the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. He took the director's job in San Francisco in 2006.
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Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, and Delegation of Authority No. 236-3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as appropriate, Delegation of Authority No. 257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby determine that the objects to be included in the exhibition ``The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant- Garde, 1860-1900,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements with the forei...
... or display of the exhibit objects at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA f...
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[Larry Wheeler] says it was the curator's tenacity that pulled it all together. [David Steel] also helped bring two previous big-time exhibits to the museum: Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris in 2004 and Rodin in 2000. Through Steel's "creative energy," Wheeler says, the Triangle was able to convince legendary museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, to loan out the precious Monets. Working with Richard Brettell, one of the top impressionist curators in America, Steel was able to partner with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and The Cleveland Museum of Art to formulate the show. Together they scoured the world to find the best examples of [Claude Monet]'s art in Normandy. The show opens with a moody painting, "The Poin...
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The heritage of this early railroad and ship building town is well preserved and honored at the Railroad-Ferry Depot Museum in the Donahue Building on Paradise Drive. The museum features a working model of the Point Tiburon yard circa 1900-1910. Thanks to the Landmatks Society, a nonprofit organization that was formed in 1995, several of Tiburon and Belvedere's most cherished landmarks have been preserved and are made available for public viewing. Old Saint Hilary's, a mission church, is one the few remaining Carpenter Gothic churches to survive in its original setting. Old St. Hilary's overlooks downtown Tiburon and the San Francisco Bay. Landmarks' Art & Garden Center has been determined the oldest structure on the Tiburon Peninsula. The restored cottage, which was built in or aro...
... the curator of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to be the judges of ...
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WASHINGTON - For Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a visit to the Clay Center soon may feel like going home. The center's Avampato Discovery Museum will be the three-month residence of a touring collection from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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One Rockefeller collection will meet another when the Juliet Museum of Art brings in 86 works from San Francisco for an 11-week run from April 3 to June 20 at the Clay Center. San Francisco is sending the touring exhibit "American Accents, 1670-1945: Masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco," which includes 41 works from the Rockefeller Collection.
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PORTLAND -- After elevating the Portland Art Museum to an institution that's glowingly talked about in art circles around the world, executive director John E. Buchanan Jr. is leaving to become head of the even better-known Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Buchanan's departure -- he assumes his new responsibilities on Feb. 1 -- was announced Friday. In San Francisco, he succeeds Harry S. Parker III, who is retiring.
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... from his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts nor his proximity to Impressionism, but from a lon...cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986). . (2.)...
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It took a new arts center, nearly $300,000 and days of installation for the Avampato Discovery Museum to land its most exciting exhibit yet. Starting Saturday, members of the public can see what the fuss has been about when "American Accents, 1670-1945: Masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Featuring the Rockefeller Collection," opens.
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Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya," at the National Gallery of Art, is said to be the first U.S. exhibition devoted to the regal art of the bitterly competitive Mesoamerican kingdoms that ruled much of southern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize 1,000 years ago. Approximately half of the objects on display come from Mexican museums. Kathleen Berrin of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Mary Ellen Miller of Yale University curated the show.
