San Francisco Summary

Anonymous Photographer
City Hall and Hall of Records, San Francisco
(completed 1897 - destroyed 1906)
ca. 1900
hand-colored albumen prints (stereograph)
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Colin Campbell Cooper
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1916
oil on canvas
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Rinaldo Cuneo
The Embarcadero at Night
ca. 1927-28
oil on panel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Roy Strong
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
1934
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Charles Surendorf
San Francisco Doorstep
ca. 1935-37
wood-engraving
(WPA Project)
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC

Giacomo Patri
Life Drawing Class taught by Giacomo Patri at California Labor School, San Francisco
1944
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Andreas Feininger
San Francisco
1947
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous Designer
San Francisco via TWA
ca. 1952
offset-print (poster)
National Air and Space Museum,
Washington DC

Dorothea Lange
San Francisco
1956
gelatin silver print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Victor Moscoso
Otis Rush at Matrix, San Francisco
1967
lithograph (poster)
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Lisa Law
Downtown San Francisco - March 27, 1967
1967
Kodachrome print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Irving Penn
Hippie Family, San Francisco
1967
platinum-palladium print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Carlos Loarca and Rupert Garcia
in Balmy Alley, San Francisco
1972
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Designer
Shopping Bag from I. Magnin, San Francisco
1982
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Designer
The Democratic National Convention, San Francisco
1984
offset-lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Mark Hess
Democratic Kick-Off, San Francisco
1984
acrylic on canvas
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Tscherny (designer)
San Francisco Clothing
1987
offset-print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wayne Thiebaud
San Francisco - West Side Ridge
2001
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Epigram

Go softly past the graveyard where

Hipponax is asleep: take care!

Don't wake that spiteful wasp, who stung

Even his parents with his tongue.

In Hell itself, where now he lies,

His red-hot words can cauterize.

– Leonidas of Tarentum (early 3rd century BC), translated by Fleur Adcock (1975)