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| Philip Guston, Courtroom 1970 |
The National Gallery's collection, the Robert and Jane Meyerfhof Collection, which includes Hans Hofman, a Rothko, Ellsworth Kelley, Robert Rauschenberg, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, and other artists of the Post War generation, which were a pleasure to see, especially, as the SFMOMA remains closed, due to its expansion program....
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| The Rothko |
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| Barnet Newman's 15 canvasses hung in a separate gallery - this is the famous "15 Stages of the Cross series" which proved very moving, as one walks alongls, viewing the variants in the "stages"... |
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| Ellsworth Kelley who reminds us not to see with our minds, but with our eyes, and that painting for him is a translation of the way he sees... |
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| Terry Winters. My husband apprenticed with him when working on his MFA at Columbia University, so used to hear about him in the studio in New York. |
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| This painting comes from a series modelled on Calvino narratives. or "La Scienza delia" (1984) ..and includes a piece of music from John Cage, "Perilous Night' which one could listen to on the audio...which added another dimension. |
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| The hands were taken from models of his friend's dead son |
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| The handkerchief is a gesture....this painting is very complex. |
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| Brice Marden, who says he started with a head of Picasso, but in the complexity of his vision, and line, which was inspired by his experience of Japanese calligraphy, he yields this painting. |
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| Hans Hofman, being celebrated at the Berkeley Museum, as in his early career, he taught there. This painting is entitled, "Autumn Gold"(1957) appropriately.... |
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