Summer Art Exhibitions

A list I compiled of art exhibitions running through summer at major institutions in California...

San Francisco

San Francisco Botanical Garden Library

Dahlias! A Photographic Tribute to San Francisco's Official Flower

Photography by Franck Avril

May 4 – August 31, 2011

California Academy of Sciences

Snakes and Lizards: The Summer of Slither

May 9 - September 5, 2011

Asian Art Museum

Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance

February 25 – September 11

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde

May 21 – September 6, 2011

De Young Museum

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

June 11, 2011 - October 9, 2011

San Francisco Maritime Museum

Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark A World-Class Exhibition Comes To San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

July 1 - October 31, 2011

Legion of Honor

Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection

July 9, 2011 - October 2, 2011

California Historical Society

A Century of Landscapes: Selections from the California Art Club

July 14 – October 15

  

Bay Area

Filoli

Botanical Art Exhibit

June 7 through July 31

University of California, Berkley Art Museum

Rome, Naples, Venice: Italian Masterworks from the BAM/PFA Collection

July 6, 2011 - October 15, 2011

Southern California

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Paris: Life and Luxury

April 26–August 7, 2011

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Emperor's River: Philipp Scholz Rittermann and High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s

May 28 - September 5, 2011

Timken Museum of Art

George Inness in Italy

June 10, 2011 - September 18, 2011

The Huntington

Out of the Shadows: Joshua Reynolds’ Celebrity Portraiture and the Market for Mezzotints in 18th-Century Britain

July 2, 2011–Sept. 26, 2011

Picasso Thief Caught!

Surprisingly the Picasso is unharmed! I think there is a lot more behind this situation and this New Jersey man who stole the Picasso, why he did it and what he planned on doing with a highly publicized piece of work. Stay tuned!

The Scribble Master

Sad news - the American artist Cy Twombly passed away two days ago at his home in Italy, at the age of 83. The master of the "scribble", graffiti style art, Twombly was somewhat of an anomaly among his peers in the post-war era. Although many artists of the time were also moving away from Abstract Expressionism, Twombly further distanced himself through his simplified lines, colors and his lifestyle. As New York was shifting as the cultural center of art, Twombly was traveling to and eventually settled in Europe, living a life outside of the limelight. Here and here are some well written articles about this dynamic artist. 

Leda and the Swan

1962

Oil, pencil, and crayon on canvas

Untitled II

1967

Etching and aquatint

Untitled

2001

Synthetic polymer paint, crayon, and 

cut-and-pasted paper on paper

Picasso Stolen in SF

Just read this article about an original Picasso drawing that was stolen from the Weinstein Gallery in downtown San Francisco...how horrible!

Tete de Femme, 1965

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pencil on paper