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The San Francisco Bay Area is highly invested in the street art scene because of its prevalence in its community. Areas such as the Mission District of San Francisco have developed a wide public fan base because of its large murals. This area of San Francisco is home to one of the most famous pieces of street art, the Women's Building mural. [2]
Cupid's Span is an outdoor sculpture by married artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, installed along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California, in the United States. The 70-foot (21 m) sculpture, commissioned by Gap Inc. founders Donald and Doris F. Fisher , depicts a partial bow and piece of an arrow.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (December 15, 1978 – April 15, 1979) M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California (June 11–September 30, 1979) After the exhibit left the U.S. it went to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (November 1–December 31, 1979)
Image credits: Chesnot #7 Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 — April 8, 1973) Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist known as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
The terra cotta sculpture is now in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [7] [8] Johnson in his studio in a Harmon Foundation photo now at the National Archives at College Park. In a 1920 San Francisco city directory, Johnson's profession was listed as "artist." [9] A 1921 directory listed him as "picture framer". [10]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. [2]
The San Francisco Museum of Art (later renamed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) gave the work its first museum appearance in the United States from 27 August to 19 September 1939. New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) then mounted an exhibition from 15 November until 7 January 1940, entitled: Picasso: 40 Years of His Art.
At the time, the piece broke the record for the most expensive piece of art ever auctioned. Read: Breathtaking Sights Around the World You Can See for Free Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’