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Renowned for its superb print holdings, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts is also the repository of an important collection of European old master drawings, dating from the 15th to the 19th century. These drawings were gifted in 1948 to the City of San Francisco by local collectors Moore and Hazel Achenbach. Delving deep into this lesser-known collection through the lenses of modern connoisseurship, this lecture will highlight recent research on a group of Renaissance and Baroque Italian drawings. Learn about new attributions as well as these drawings’ functions, techniques, and earliest collecting history.
About the curator
Furio Rinaldi, PhD, is curator in charge of drawings, prints, and photographs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he has organized the exhibitions Tamara de Lempicka (2024–2025), Botticelli Drawings (2023–2024) and Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022). In 2022, he was appointed the David and Julie Tobey Fellow at I Tatti — The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
About the “A Closer Look” series
This program is part of our “A Closer Look” series, a new curatorial lecture series exploring both the development of the Museums’ distinct collections and their art historical significance. Beginning at the Legion of Honor and expanding to the de Young soon, the series features in-depth presentations that highlight collection gems while demystifying creative practices that span thousands of years.
About the Achenbach Collection: famsf.org/collections/about-achenbach-foundation-graphic-arts
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Renowned for its superb print holdings, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts is also the repository of an important collection of European old master drawings, dating from the 15th to the 19th century. These drawings were gifted in 1948 to the City of San Francisco by local collectors Moore and Hazel Achenbach. Delving deep into this lesser-known collection through the lenses of modern connoisseurship, this lecture will highlight recent research on a group of Renaissance and Baroque Italian drawings. Learn about new attributions as well as these drawings’ functions, techniques, and earliest collecting history.
About the curator
Furio Rinaldi, PhD, is curator in charge of drawings, prints, and photographs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he has organized the exhibitions Tamara de Lempicka (2024–2025), Botticelli Drawings (2023–2024) and Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022). In 2022, he was appointed the David and Julie Tobey Fellow at I Tatti — The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
About the “A Closer Look” series
This program is part of our “A Closer Look” series, a new curatorial lecture series exploring both the development of the Museums’ distinct collections and their art historical significance. Beginning at the Legion of Honor and expanding to the de Young soon, the series features in-depth presentations that highlight collection gems while demystifying creative practices that span thousands of years.
About the Achenbach Collection: famsf.org/collections/about-achenbach-foundation-graphic-arts
Subscribe to our channel: https://dey.ng/our-channel
Don’t miss our upcoming programs! Sign up for our newsletter: https://dey.ng/newsletter
![[Day 2] Bridges: Social Engagement in Artists’ Books/ 2021 Reva and David Logan Symposium](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/__Kti0abfM8/mqdefault.jpg "[Day 2] Bridges: Social Engagement in Artists’ Books/ 2021 Reva and David Logan Symposium
As potent tools for understanding, books can bridge disparate cultures. This year’s Logan Symposium brings together six powerful and courageous voices, artists who have traveled the world, and traveled within themselves, to bring back visual and poetic testimony
About the Speakers:
Laura Anderson Barbata: Book Making in the Amazon Rain Forest: Preserving a Culture
Laura Anderson Barbata, a transdisciplinary artist with studios in New York and Mexico City, produces work that, in her words, is “intended to connect various cultures . . . by engaging creative practices that promote dignity, shared values, diversity, and collaboration through reciprocal exchange of knowledge.” Her work with the Yanomami of southern Venezuela led to the production of handmade paper and an award-winning book that preserves the belief systems of their culture. The project became a tool for advocacy, social justice, self-determination, and environmental protection. (lauraandersonbarbata.com)
Clifton Meador: This Is Not Tibet
Clifton Meador combines writing, photography, printmaking, and design to make printed works that explore how the narratives of culture, history, and place are the basis for identity. For a 2006–2007 research project in Tibet, he produced detailed photo documentation of the production of printed sutras at a Tibetan temple. He later created a series of artist’s books inspired by the experience. Meador has worked as a pressman at several commercial, literary, and small–press production facilities. He is a professor in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University. (clifton-meador.com)")
