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The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur.Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle.
Berggruen was born June 18, 1943 in San Francisco, California to Heinz Berggruen, a noted German-born art collector and dealer, and Lillian Zellerbach, a scion of the prominent San Francisco family. [2] His maternal grandfather was Isadore Zellerbach (1866-1941), who was the president of Crown Zellerbach Paper Company, and a devoted philanthropist.
Pages in category "Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 244 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Saint Joseph's Arts Society works in collaboration with other arts nonprofits, and serves in many capacities including as a gallery, museum, event space, and an artist-in-residence space. [3] [8] [9] It houses a branch of Carpenters Workshop Gallery. [10] In 2021, Saint Joseph's Arts Society hosted Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary ...
The nonprofit, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, said it plans to keep the 93,000-square-foot campus as an art institute. San Francisco Art Institute is sold to a new nonprofit — along with the ...
San Francisco Arts Commission [56] Harry Lundeberg (1901-1957) E. Hunt: 1957 Sailors Union of the Pacific Building Bronze: 30 x 24 x 24 in. San Francisco Arts Commission [57] Smile: John Seward Johnson II: 1957 201 Spear St. Bronze
In the mid-1960s, he moved to California, where he worked as the set designer for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, he worked primarily in the Southwestern United States, where he painted large murals [ 3 ] and was visible in New Mexico's most respected art galleries, being part of the Santa Fe artist group Nerve [ 4 ...
[3] [2] He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. He created over two dozen tapestries, [5] some of which are in the de Young Museum and the San Francisco International Airport. [2] He was commissioned to create a 30-foot tapestry for the headquarters of Weyerhaeuser. [3] In 1963, he won the Rome Prize.