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Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

About Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Dr. Lauren Palmor is Assistant Curator of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She earned a master's degree in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Washington.

Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams, 2001, acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 152.4 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, ©Wayne Thiebaud) — Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?

The landscape remade

by Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker

Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams, 2001, acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 152.4 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, ©Wayne Thiebaud) — Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?

Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams

by Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker

Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John Brown, c. 1884, oil on canvas, 117.2 x 96.8 cm (de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) — John Brown has polarized political opinion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.

John Brown, Martyr or murderer?

by Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker

Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John Brown, c. 1884, oil on canvas, 117.2 x 96.8 cm (de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) — Martyr or murderer? John Brown has polarized political opinion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.

Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John ...

by Dr. Lauren Palmor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker