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Resisting avant-garde styles like Impressionism, she remained a strongly individual figurative artist, renowned for her portraits of East Coast, Gilded Age society. Here, she portrays her cousin Charles Leavitt, a successful engineer and pioneering city planner.
Jun 12, 2024 · San Francisco Bay produced many groundbreaking artists who worked in different fields in the second half of the 20th century. Using a wide range of techniques and mediums, these artists have participated in and shaped art distinctively unique to the Bay Area.
- The Thinker. Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker (ca. 1880, cast ca.1904) is a world-famous sculpture depicting a nude male deep in thought, originally conceived as the poet Dante but later evolving to include all poets and creators.
- Yoda Fountain. Jedi Master Yoda found home atop a fountain outside of the Letterman Digital Arts Center in 2005. Since then he has graced this galaxy with his presence to the delight of Star Wars fans everywhere.
- Wave Organ. The Wave Organ, created by artists Peter Richards and George Gonzalez in 1986, is an acoustic sculpture activated by the waves of the San Francisco Bay.
- Hearts in San Francisco. In 2004, Nancy Bechtle and Ellen Magin Newman started the Hearts in San Francisco project to benefit the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.
Jun 21, 2016 · The New Jersey-born photographer deftly incorporates California’s distinctive natural light—which struck him as a “physical presence” and motivated him to move to San Francisco early in his career—transforming his commonplace subjects into vignettes of light and shadow. At the same time, his compositions feel spontaneous, revealing ...
From the fields of Golden Gate Park to the terminals of San Francisco International Airport, Illuminate SF shines far and wide. Get to know the talented, award-winning, and boundary-breaking artists who help bring San Francisco’s longest nights to dazzling life each winter.
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Feb 21, 2024 · SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 21, 2024) – 50 years ago, against a backdrop of political activism and the rising visibility of the disability rights movement, Creative Growth Art Center was founded in Oakland, California, as the first U.S. organization dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities.
