Tamara de Lempicka

The defining painter of the Art Deco period, Tamara de Lempicka forged a bold cosmopolitan figural style that infused the European pictorial tradition with the energy of American modernity.

Mary Cassatt at Work

Mary Cassatt at Work delves into the artist’s processes and materials, exploring the daring, experimental methods she used to produce her celebrated images of women and children.

American Beauty

American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art celebrates one of the most transformative gifts of art in the history of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Chiura Obata

One of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most influential and respected artists, Obata found inspiration throughout his life in what he termed “Great Nature.”

Artistic California

Art made in California forms a core component of the Museums’ collection and demonstrates the institution’s history of supporting the region’s artists.

Women Artists

Previously overlooked artists, past and present, are now gaining recognition and significance as presented with these important collection highlights.

Harold John Brothers

Russian Hill, San Francisco, ca. 1945

Teikichi Hikoyama

Mt. Tamalpais, 1927

Richard Diebenkorn

Green, 1986

Chiura Obata

El Capitan, 1930

Bertha Lum

Branch of Oranges, 1925

Frances Hammel Gearhart

Low Tide, 1930

Claude Monet

Sailboats on the Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1874

Georges Seurat

Eiffel Tower, ca. 1889

Canaletto (Antonio Canal)

Venice, the Grand Canal looking East with Santa Maria della Salute, 1749–1750