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Vickery, Atkins & Torrey was an interior design firm and art gallery in San Francisco, California, that helped introduce California to Impressionism.It opened in 1888 on Grant Avenue at Morton Street (now called Maiden Lane), where it was destroyed in the 1906 fire, and after a few years reopened at 550 Sutter Street, where it stayed in business until 1933.
Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)
The couple moved to San Francisco, California sometime around 1900, living near Chinatown. [7] He worked at a delicatessen, and in his free time, he painted cityscapes, landscapes and portraits. [1] [8] While in San Francisco, he created Fortune Teller in 1898, A realistic portrayal of life in San Francisco in the late 1800s. Many of Primus's ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Eadweard Muybridge, Stereographic Views of San Francisco Bay Area Locations, c. 1865–c. 1879, finding aid and online photo collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Era of exploration : the rise of landscape photography in the American West, 1860–1885 , fully digitized text from The Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries
Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation, which collects, preserves and exhibits photography.
San Francisco's New Mission Theater Chronology at The Friends of 1800 website. 118: Niantic Niantic ... San Francisco Art Institute. January 5, 2016
Arnold Genthe was born in Berlin, Prussia, to Luise Zober and Hermann Genthe, a professor of Latin and Greek at the Graues Kloster (Grey Monastery) in Berlin. Genthe followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a classically trained scholar; he received a doctorate in philology in 1894 from the University of Jena, where he knew artist Adolph Menzel, his mother's cousin.