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de Young Museum

  • Phone: 415.750.3600
  • Type: Congeries Repository
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums
  • Museum Type: Congeries Repository

The de Young Museum, set within the gardens and winding paths of Golden Gate Park, stands as one of San Francisco's essential cultural landmarks. Founded in the 1890s as the Fine Arts Building of the Midwinter Exposition and later transformed into a public museum, it has grown into a world-class repository of American art, international textiles, and global antiquities. Its current building, completed in 2005, blends copper, light, and landscape to create an experience where art and environment meet. Today, the de Young continues to anchor the city's artistic life, preserving works that range from early American portraiture to contemporary expressions of the Bay Area's creative spirit. - AsNotedIn


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Objects of Art
WorkTypeCreatorAsNotedIn
Dinner for Threshers (painting) Painting
Mrs Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner painting) Painting
Mrs William Pinkney (Ann Maria Rodgers) (painting) Painting
Philip Church (painting) Painting
Portrait of Orleans Painting
The Perfectionist (drawing) Drawing

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1894/00/00 The museum is built as the Fine Arts Building of the Midwinter Expo. Designed in a Egyptian style, the building will later become a free, public museum, housing art from the Expo donated by artists. The Sphinxes by Arthur Putnam remain in front. California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894
1894/04/00 Eric Pape Artist "The Young Spinner of Zeven" a painting by Eric Pape is awarded a medal at the California Midwinter International Exposition. California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894
1919/00/00 Louis Christian Mullgardt Architect Designed in the Spanish-Plateresque-style, the de Young museum is completed and formally transferred by de Young to the city's park commissioners (razed).
1979/04/05 John D Rockefeller III Benefactor Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd make a gift of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Mrs Daniel Sargent to the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Mrs Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner painting)
1979/07/00 Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller Benefactor Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller make a gift of "The Perfectionist" by Grant Wood to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The drawing is part of the M H de Young Memorial Museum's collection. The Perfectionist (drawing)
1979/07/00 Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller Benefactor Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller make a gift of Grant Wood's study of "Dinner for Threshers" to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The painting is part of the M H de Young Memorial Museum's collection. Dinner for Threshers (painting)
1979/07/00 Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller Benefactor Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd gift the "Philip Church" painting by John Trumbull to the de Young Museum in San Fransisco. Philip Church (painting)
2000/12/31 The former de Young Museum structure closes to the public. Historic elements such as the sphinxes, the original palm trees, and the Pool of Enchantment, will be retained or reconstructed at the new museum.
2005/10/15 Herzog and de Meuron Basel, Ltd Architects The new de Young museum building opens. The design weaves the museum into the natural environment of the park and provides open and light-filled spaces that facilitate and enhance the art-viewing experience.
2020/06/19 A mob, apparently protesting discrimination in America, vandalize the Sphinxes at the de Young Museum.

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Particulars for de Young Museum:
Area of Significance Architecture
Area of Significance Art
Sight Category Building
Museum Type Museum




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