Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Drag Art History Ep. 3 | Hold onto your drinks, because we're BACK... with the one, the only, the fabulous @LadyCamden and curator Furio Rinaldi with another clip from their hilarious (and informative!) conversation about the iconic Tamara de Lempicka 💚 📹 Watch the full episode on our FAMSF YouTube now! The de Young museum will be open for holiday hours on Monday, December 30, 2024, the perfect time to see this stunning and moving exhibition for yourself. "Tamara de Lempicka" is on view now through February 9, 2025! #TamaradeLempicka #DragArtHistory #LadyCamden #ArtDeco #LGBTQIA

TGIF... The weekend is almost upon us and we have another day of Legion of Honor festive programming as a treat from us to you 🎁 10:30am: Join our friends from @sew_frisco for a hand sewing ornaments workshop inside our Bowles Porcelain Gallery and create a unique ornament inspired by our very own Legion of Honor. 1pm: Visit our Gunn Theater for a very special "A Closer Look" lecture with Ancient Art curator Renée Dreyfus exploring the not-so-secret history of the relationship between our incredible Ancient Art collection, founder Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, and the Queen of Greece. 2:30pm: If you missed out on the Hand Sewing Ornaments Workshop in the morning, drop by after the "A Closer Look" lecture and try your hand at making your own Legion of Honor inspired ornament. (The workshops are a guided experience and limited to 25 people, first come, first served. All materials will be provided.) [Niobid Group, Spreckels Painter, "Red-figure pelike (storage jar)," ca. 450 BC] [Ornaments by Sew Frisco. Photograph courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco] #LegionOfHonor #AncientGreek #Pottery #Ornament #Crafts #HandSewing #DIY

Renaissance art but make it ✨ Art Deco ✨ In this stunning painting, Tamara de Lempicka reimagines Gian Lorenzo Bernini's iconic Baroque sculpture, bringing a fresh, painterly twist to the original. Possibly working from a photograph, she transformed Bernini’s cool white marble into rich, warm tones, while still preserving the purity of the form and the saint’s ecstatic, almost trance-like expression. The veil, in soft shades of gray, highlights the soft, living flesh of the saint, with her lips slightly parted in a moment of rapture. This painting is not only a beautiful reimagining of Bernini’s work but also shows Lempicka’s deep connection to the European Old Masters, constantly drawing inspiration from their timeless masterpieces throughout her career 🎨 Come see the emotional power of Lempicka's striking portraits this festive season 🎁✨ The de Young museum will be open for holiday hours on Monday, December 30, 2024, the perfect time to see this very special exhibition for yourself. "Tamara de Lempicka" is on view now through February 9, 2025. [Tamara de Lempicka, "Sainte Thérèse d’Avila," 1930. © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY. Courtesy of Museo Soumaya. Fundación Carlos Slim Collection, Mexico City] [Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (detail)," 1652. Santa Maria della Vittoria, Cornaro Chapel, Rome] #TamaraDeLempicka #SaintTeresaOfAvila #BaroqueArt #ArtInspo #Bernini #ArtHistory

Behind the scenes: rolling out the Pavia tapestries. How incredible to watch the stories unfurl right before our eyes! Come see these unbelievably detailed artworks in person for yourself at “Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries,” on view now until January 12, 2025. #PaviaTapestries #RenaissanceArt #Tapestries #RenaissanceTapestry #deYoung

Mary Cassatt’s “Set of Ten” prints are considered some of the most inventive in the history of modern printmaking. Using two to three metal plates, and a combination of soft ground, drypoint, and aquatint techniques, Cassatt created 25 copies of each scene in the set. Follow along with Christina Taylor, conservator of works of art on paper at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to learn how Cassatt made her iconic color print, "The Letter" and click the link below for more information. https://lnkd.in/gS2gUCsP #MaryCassatt #Impressionism #Printmaking #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #LegionOfHonor

Watch as curator Furio Rinaldi and @marisadelempicka, Tamara de Lempicka's great-granddaughter and manager of her estate, explain how the watershed moment of the Russian Revolution changed the course of Lempicka's life forever. Watch our new documentary to learn more about this genre-defining artist and her pioneering art practice. You can find it in full on our FAMSF YouTube page or by clicking the link: https://bit.ly/4epJdzC "Tamara de Lempicka" is on view now. Come and explore the world of Lempicka for yourself. #TamaraDeLempicka #ArtDeco #deYoung

What do Rembrandt, ballet, screen printing, live music, and cake all have in common? The Legion of Honor 100 opening weekend! 🎂 Join us tomorrow for the first in our new lecture series, "A Closer Look," from curator Emily A. Beeny, as she takes us on a historical tour of our European paintings collection. Think: the history of the collection, artwork highlights, and the colorful characters who brought them to San Francisco. Thank you to all our fantastic collaborators and community. Preparations are almost complete! ✨ Find a full schedule for tomorrow below: @smartbomb_oakland musical performances: 9:30 am – 3 pm, Court of Honor + Galleries 6 + 14 100 years, 100 portraits with @lexmexart: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm, Court of Honor Centennial Remarks + Cake Cutting Ceremony: 11 – 11:30am, Court of Honor Cake picnic with @cakepicnictour: 10 am – 2:30 pm, Front lawn (at capacity) Community Stitches + Patches with @sewfrisco: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm, Court of Honor Screen printing with ARTivate @citystudiosf: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm, Front lawn Sketching in the Galleries: 11:30 am – 3:30 pm, Galleries 4 + 18 @oddity Musical Performances: Noon + 2 pm, Court of Honor Pop up by @tartsdefeybasse: 1 – 3:30 pm, Court of Honor A Closer Look: Collecting European Paintings for San Francisco: 1 pm, Gunn Theater Organ Concert with the @sfballet School: 4 – 5 pm, Galleries 8, 10, 12 + Court of Honor All programs are free and open to the public. Entry to the permanent collection galleries and the special exhibition “Mary Cassatt at Work” is free. Exhibition tickets are limited, first come, first served 🔥 [Rembrandt van Rijn, "Portrait of Joris de Caullery," 1632] #Legion100 #LegionOfHonor #BayArea

"By turns swaggering, Sapphic and sensational, the 100 paintings and drawings deliver every inch of Lempicka’s luxuriant rigor, and they show us where the life pumps through it all." Read as New York Times art critic, Walker Mimms, reviews our new exhibition, "Tamara de Lempicka," the first major U.S. survey of the artist's work.

DYK our new exhibition, “Tamara de Lempicka,” is the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the US? 💌 Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) was once a star of 1920s Paris and has been appreciated in Europe since the 1980s. She came to the United States in 1939, fleeing Europe just before the Nazi invasion because of her Jewish heritage. Although Lempicka remained in America, eventually moving to Mexico, the Art Deco style of her paintings fell out of fashion and she never achieved the same recognition as she did in Paris. See her striking and rarely publicly displayed work for yourself at our new exhibition, "Tamara de Lempicka," on view now through February 9, 2025. [Tamara de Lempicka, "Wisdom (La Sagesse)," 1940-1941, © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY. © 2019 Christie’s Images Limited] [Tamara de Lempicka, "Le chapeau de paille," 1930, © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY. Image courtesy of the Tamara de Lempicka Estate] [Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Ira P., 1930, © 2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, NY, © 1998 Christie’s Images Limited] #TamaraDeLempicka #ArtDeco #GreatWomenArtists