Virtually explore the museum with Smarthistory as your guide
Some background
videos + essays
Link to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's website
Jess, If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
From the Manhattan Project to nursery rhymes, a collision of art and science.
Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
Aspiration was one of only two panels to survive the Texas Centennial where it pointed to a future that transcended the racism of the day.
Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For The World
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial
Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams
Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?
