de Young Museum: Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970
Through Jan 18, 2009 — Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 presents the work of artists of Asian ancestry who lived and worked in the United States. This exhibition represents the first comprehensive survey of these artists, and seeks to advance awareness of this under-represented group in American art history. Asian/American/Modern is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Asian American Art Project at Stanford University in collaboration with San Francisco State University, and is supported by the Ednah Root Foundation, the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Traveling Exhibitions, the National Endowment for the Arts, Delta Dental of California, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Exhibition curators are SF State Art Professor Mark Johnson and Palm Springs Museum of Art Deputy Director Daniel Cornell.
Contact: 415/750-3600
Location: de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: 9:30 am – 5:15 pm; Friday: 9:30 am–8:45 pm
Admission: $20 adults; $17 seniors; $16 youths 13–17 and students with a college I.D.; de Young members and children 12 and under are free ($10 special exhibition surcharge is included); The first Tuesday of every month is free ($10 special exhibition surcharge still applies)
Image: Chiura Obata (b. 1885, Okayama, Japan–d. 1975, Berkeley, CA) Setting Sun: Sacramento Valley, ca. 1925. Hanging scroll: mineral pigments (distemper) and gold on silk, 107 1/2 x 69 in. Courtesy of Gyo Obata.
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