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SFMOMA - COLLECTION ROTATIONCurator: Maria Naulablog.sfmoma.org SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2011 |
| Our regular feature, Collection Rotation. Each month a guest organizes an exhibition from our collection works online. Maria Naula works in SFMOMA’s Accessions Department supervising the acquisitions process, and it's possible she knows the collection, at least as it's grown over the last decade, more comprehensively than anyone on staff. Welcome! |
 | Untitled 1994
210 cm x 141 cm mixed media (oil and acrylic on canvas) SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| The works chosen for this rotation are among my favorites in the museum’s collection. When Suzanne asked me to post my version of the Collection Rotation on Open Space, I was flattered and began by looking at image after image of a collection I have watched grow for 10 years. There were memories of favorites, reunions with works I had not seen in quite some time, and works I wonder if anyone has seen yet. I must share these, I thought. During this selection process, I also reflected on the way these works were brought into the museum’s collection—through the cultivation of the accessions committees; as bequests; as promised gifts; and as works co-owned by the museum and collectors in the community—and a history being built not only for the sake of the work and its content as art history but for the museum, its community, and its placement in the art world. However the images were chosen not in reference to any external criteria such as date, artist, credit, but in relation and response to the image itself. They are, to me, immediate and striking in their beauty, speak a visual poetry through form and composition, share humor and delicate movement, vibrant color palettes…a telling tableau of sorts. What a thrill to reflect on our collection, and just as the museum’s 75th anniversary year comes to a close. |
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Selected Work: Edward Weston, Torso , from the portfolio Desnudos 1920-1945, 1925, printed later; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. Dora Maar, Le Simulateur (The Simulator or The Pretender) , 1936; Collection of the Sack Photographic Trust © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris . Bruce Nauman, Untitled, 1965-1966; The Panza Collection. Promised Gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © 2011 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York . Jan Saudek, Animal, 1975; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Jan Saudek . Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta (Still Life), 1952; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome . Tacita Dean, Day for Night, 2009; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Tacita Dean . Francesca Woodman, Untitled, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (M.479), 1980; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Estate of Francesca Woodman . Yves Klein, Untitled (ANT154), 1961; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris . Bruce Conner, THREE SCREEN RAY, 2006; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © The Conner Family Trust . Jacob Aue Sobol, Untitled #08, from the series I, Toyko, 2006-2008; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Jacob Aue Sobol . Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arsilah, Morocco, 1933, printed ca. 1950s; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © 2011 Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos . Irving Penn, Girl in Bed on Telephone, New York (Jean Patchett), 1949; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Estate of Irving Penn . Judith Turner, John Hejduk, Architect, The Cooper Union Renovation, New York, New York, 1974-75 , 1974, printed 2003; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, © Judith Turner . Helen Levitt, New York, ca. 1940; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Estate of Helen Levitt / Laurence Miller Gallery, New York . Bruce Nauman, Untitled, 1964-1965; The Panza Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York . Gottfried Helnwein, Blue Child, 1996; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © 2011 Gottfried Helnwein / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst . Andrew Schoultz, Ten Thousand Leaves In Darkness, 2009; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Andrew Schoultz |
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