Location: de Young Museum

Blythe, Justice

by Emily Jennings, Director of School and Family Programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Beth Harris

Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins), If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink, 1962, oil on canvas, 96.5 x 142.2 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) © the artist's estate — From the Manhattan Project to nursery rhymes, a collision of art and science.

Jess, If All the World Were Paper ...

by Emma Acker at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Beth Harris

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.

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Beth Harris

An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial

Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For ...
by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Beth Harris

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

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

Teraoka draws on Japan's brilliant history of art and kabuki theatre to creating beauty from heart-rending tragedy.

Masami Teraoka, American Kabuki
by Emma Acker at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker

Before T.V. and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face.

George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician
by Emily Jennings, Director of School and Family Programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker