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Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California
On view at the Oakland Museum of California
September 20, 2014–January 25, 2015
I. Patronage, Public Art, and Allegory of California (1930s)
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Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931; oil on canvas; 39 3/8 x 31 in. (100.01 x 78.74 cm);
Collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender; © Banco de Mexico Diego
Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Ben
Blackwell
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Diego Rivera, Untitled (Young man with model airplane), study for the mural Allegory of California, Pacific
Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, San Francisco, 1930; graphite on paper; 24 x 17 7/8 in. (60.96 x 45.42
cm); Collection SFMOMA, gift of William L. Gerstle through the San Francisco Art Institute; © Banco de
Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York; photo: Ben Blackwell
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Dorothea Lange, May Day Listener at Rally, 1934. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 7.125 in. Collection of the
Oakland Museum of California, gift of James and Lisa Heyman in honor of Therese Thau Heyman.
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Peter Stackpole, Diego Rivera Sketching Mural, early 1930s. Gelatin silver print, 9.75 x 7.75 in. Collection
of the Oakland Museum of California, the Bell Fund.
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Dorothy Winslade, Storm Over Coit Tower, circa 1934. Oil on canvas, 22 x 26 in. Collection of the
Oakland Museum of California, gift of Harold R. (Bart) Wilson, Jr.
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Diego Rivera, Flower Carrier, 1935; oil and tempera on Masonite; 48 x 47 3/4 in. (121.92 x 121.29 cm);
Collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender in memory of Caroline Walter;
© Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society
(ARS), New York; photo: Ben Blackwell
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Sargent Johnson, Negro Woman, ca. 1935; wood, gesso, cloth, and lacquer; 32 x 13 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
(81.28 x 34.29 x 29.85 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender; ©
Estate of Sargent Johnson; photo: Ben Blackwell
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Diego Rivera, Energy, study for the main wall of the mural Allegory of California, Pacific Stock Exchange
Luncheon Club, San Francisco, 1930; graphite on paper; 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm); Collection
SFMOMA, Gift of William L. Gerstle through the San Francisco Art Institute; © Banco de Mexico Diego
Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Don
Ross
II. Postwar at the California School of Fine Arts (1940s–’50s)
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David Park, Portrait of Richard Diebenkorn, circa 1953. Oil on canvas, 21 x 15.25 in. Collection of the
Oakland Museum of California, gift of Mrs. Roy Moore.
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David Park, Rehearsal, c. 1949 - 1950. Oil on canvas, 46 x 35.75 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum
of California, gift of the Anonymous Donor Program of the American Federation of Arts. Courtesy of
Hackett | Mill, representative of the Estate of David Park; © Estate of David Park.
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Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1949. Oil on canvas, 45 x 36 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum of
California, gift of the Women’s Board of the Oakland Museum Association.
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Clyfford Still, Untitled [formerly Self-Portrait], 1945; oil on canvas; 70 7/8 x 42 in. (180.04 x 106.68 cm);
Collection SFMOMA, gift of Peggy Guggenheim; © City and County of Denver; photo: Ben Blackwell
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Elmer Bischoff, Orange Sweater, 1955; oil on canvas; 48 1/2 x 57 in. (123.19 x 144.78 cm); Collection
SFMOMA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schorer; © Estate of Elmer Bischoff; photo: Ben Blackwell
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David Park, Two Bathers, 1958; oil on canvas; 58 x 50 in. (147.32 x 127 cm); Collection SFMOMA,
purchase through gifts of Mrs. Wellington S. Henderson, Helen Crocker Russell, and the Crocker Family,
by exchange, and the Mary Heath Keesling Fund; © Estate of David Park; photo: John Wilson White
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Richard Diebenkorn, Figure on a Porch, 1959. Oil on canvas, 57 x 62 in. Collection of the Oakland
Museum of California, Anonymous Donor Program of the American Federation of the Arts. © The Richard
Diebenkorn Foundation
III. A New Art Department at UC Davis (1960s–’70s)
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Mimi Jacobs, Robert Arneson, Sculptor, 1975; Gelatin silver print; 12.5 x 10.75 in; Collection of the
Oakland Museum of California, Gift of Mimi Jacobs
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Wayne Thiebaud, Delicatessen Counter, 1961. Oil on canvas, 28 x 35 in. Collection of the Oakland
Museum of California, gift of Concours d’Antiques, Art Guild.
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William T. Wiley, Slant Step, 1966. Cast concrete with metal link chain, 24.5 x 13 in. Collection of the
Oakland Museum of California, Anonymous Donor.
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Manuel Neri, Untitled (Seated Woman), 1979. Plaster and dry pigments, 33.75 x 28 x 21.5 in. Collection
of the Oakland Museum of California, gift of the Collectors Gallery and National Endowment for the Arts.
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Roy De Forest, Country Dog Gentlemen, 1972; polymer on canvas, 66 3/4 in. x 97 in. (169.55 cm x
246.38 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Gift of the Hamilton-Wells Collection; © Estate of Roy De Forest /
Licensed by VAGA, New York
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Robert Arneson, California Artist, 1982; stoneware with glazes, 68 1/4 in. x 27 1/2 in. x 20 1/4 in. (173.36
cm x 69.85 cm x 51.44 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Gift of the Modern Art Council; © Estate of Robert
Arneson / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Robert Arneson, Study for California Artist, 1982; Polaroids, mixed drawing media, acrylic, and watercolor
on paper; 54 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (137.8 x 104.78 cm); Collection SFMOMA, gift of Rena Bransten; © Estate of
Robert Arneson / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; photo: Ben Blackwell
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William T. Wiley, All That Grass, 1966; acrylic on canvas; 65 1/4 x 72 3/4 in. (165.74 x 184.79 cm);
Collection SFMOMA, partial gift of Brenda Richardson and purchase, by exchange, through an
anonymous gift; © William T. Wiley; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
IV. The Mission Scene (1990s–today)
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Margaret Kilgallen, Untitled, 2000, acrylic on unstretched canvas; 136 1/2 x 316 in. (346.71 x 802.64 cm);
Collection SFMOMA, Purchase, by exchange, through a fractional gift of Evelyn D. Haas, and through
gifts of Albert M. Bender, Vicki and Kent Logan, Janice and Henry Rooney, and bequests of Dr. Gertrude
Ticho and Dean Barnlund; © Estate of Margaret Kilgallen
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Barry McGee, Untitled, 2009; mixed media; dimensions variable; Collection SFMOMA, Ruth Nash Fund
and Louis Vuitton N. A. purchase; © Barry McGee; photo: Ben Blackwell
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Johanna Jackson, We Are All On Stage Together, 2001; acrylic gouache on wood, 7 in. x 5 in. (17.8 cm x
12.7 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Gift of Amy Adelson and Dean Valentine; © Jo Jackson
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