Anthony Friedkin, Gene Harlow, Drag Queen Ball, Long Beach, 1971 from the series The Gay Essay. Gelatin silver print. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, anonymous gift, 2011.58.2 ...

Frida Kahlo’s sojourns to San Francisco were brief but extremely impactful. It was in the California city—the first she visited in the US—that she ventured into a new world beyond the scope of ...

This painting depicts Mila, a Black woman who was enslaved by Reverend William Anderson Scott (1813–1885), a public supporter of slavery. The New Orleans First Presbyterian Church, where Scott was the ...

Gustav Grunewald was a member of the Moravian religious community of Gnadau, Germany. In 1831, he left Germany to join the sect's settlement at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He first traveled to Niagara ...

Accompanying a major retrospective of Anders Zorn’s work in the United States, this is the first volume to explore the Swedish artist’s entire career in depth. Anders Zorn (1860–1920) is one of Sweden ...

Patrick Kelly (1954–1990) was known for his bold, bright, and joyful fashion creations that resonated in the streets and nightclubs and on the runways of New York, Paris, and beyond. The first ...

San Francisco, April 2009—This summer the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present a retrospective of John Baldessari’s prints at the Legion of Honor. Over 100 prints are included in the exhibition ...

San Francisco, April 2008—For nearly two decades, New York artist Jane Hammond has been using a fixed lexicon of 276 images to create paintings and works on paper, both flat and three-dimensional, ...

This painting depicts Mission Carmel, the second of the Catholic missions founded by the Franciscan priest Junípero Serra (1713–1784), whose brutal tactics played a central role in the systematic ...

Linda Gamino, Associate Director of Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco, opens up about her story of a tragic accident that affected her life, and the impact of Frida Kahlo in helping her ...

Presenting an overall view of Pierre Bonnard’s career, Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia explores an oeuvre of controlled lyricism and delineates a role that rightfully belongs to the artist—that of ...

The de Young is San Francisco’s oldest art museum, treasured in a unique verdant setting. Beginning as the Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum in 1895, this museum has been a valued center of world art ...