MH de Young Memorial Museum

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De Young Museum
Interior view from 1956

The MH de Young Museum , named after the newspaper publisher MH de Young , is an art museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco group .

history

For the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 in San Francisco, an art exhibition building ("Fine Arts building") based on a design by Charles C. McDougall in the New Egyptian style of an Egyptian temple was built in the 1895 the deYoung Museum moved in. This temple-like structure, in front of which a sphinx was erected, was severely damaged in the earthquake in April 1906. It was repaired first, but then declared unsafe and demolished in 1929.

A new building in the Spanish- style Plateresque style based on designs by the architect Louis Christian Mullgardt was completed in 1919. After extensive renovation work in 1949 and severe damage during the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 , the deYoung Museum was reopened in its current form in 2005. The current building was designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron .

With almost 1.2 million visitors, it was the 6th most visited art museum in the United States in 2015.

collection

The collections include works of African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian art, fine and applied arts from the USA, graphic works and textiles.

The collection of American paintings with paintings by John Singleton Copley , John Vanderlyn , Thomas Cole , George Caleb Bingham , Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Edwin Church , Albert Bierstadt , Thomas Eakins , John Singer Sargent , William Michael Harnett, Mary Cassatt , Charles Demuth , Georgia O'Keeffe , Grant Wood , Stuart Davis and Richard Diebenkorn is considered to be the most important on the US West Coast.

Web links

Commons : MH de Young Memorial Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the Fine Arts Museums . In: FAMSF . ( famsf.org [accessed November 4, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Outsidelands.org, De Young Museum, photos http://www.outsidelands.org/deyoung-museum-photos.php  ; accessed on May 23, 2020
  3. ^ About the de Young . In: de Young . ( famsf.org [accessed November 4, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Special Report: Visitor Figures 2015. In: The Grand Totals: Exhibition and Museum attendance numbers worldwide. The Art Newspaper, April 2016, p. 15 , accessed on November 3, 2016 (English).

Coordinates: 37 ° 46 ′ 17 "  N , 122 ° 28 ′ 7"  W.