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Changes in the Collection Galleries
Many of the Center's 24 galleries present works from the collection plus long-term loans. Each collection gallery is dedicated to a distinct era or type of art. Together the galleries span the history of art from ancient China and Egypt to the 21st century. Works in the collection galleries change on a regular basis.
Freidenrich Family Gallery
Contemporary Multiples
December 2 - May 1, 2010
This collection presents the unconventional ways in which artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein have created multiples in sculpture and other media. IMAGE: Claes Oldenburg, DoubleNose/Purse/Punching Bag/Ashtray, 1970. Leather, bronze, and wood. Cantor Arts Center, Given in honor of Gerhard Casper, Stanford University president (1992-2000), by the Marmor Foundation.
Marie Stauffer Sigall Gallery
Art and Invention
Opens November 18
The early modern gallery features works on paper depicting scenes of labor and industrialization set in Europe and America during the early 20th century. Artists include Lewis Hine and Peter Stackpole.
IMAGE: Lewis Hine (U.S.A., 1874-1940). Young Millworker (detail), c. 1904. Gelatin-silver print. Cantor Arts Center, Committee for Art Acquisitions Fund, 1986.8.
Patricia S. Rebele Gallery
A Legacy in Teaching: Henry Varnum Poor 
Mid-November - May 1, 2010
Henry Varnum Poor (class of 1910) taught art at Stanford for a few years and later continued his career as a painter (including murals), ceramist, architect, and sculptor. IMAGE: Henry Varnum Poor (U.S.A., 1888-1970). Landscape, 1914. Oil on Canvas. Cantor Arts Center, 2002.38.
In Honor of Lorenz Eitner (1919–2009)
Robert Mondavi Family Gallery: October - May 9, 2010
European works on paper in two galleries, highlighting prints and drawings acquired during the tenure of the Stanford museum’s distinguished former director, Professor Lorenz Eitner. The Mondavi gallery of 19th–century art shows some 20 prints and drawings, plus a fine painting of a horse by Théodore Gericault, the great French romantic painter about whom Eitner wrote so eloquently. Also on view are a group of autograph letters, including several by Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.
Gallery for Early European Art: October - March 2010
18th-century Venice is featured in prints and drawings by that city's celebrated painter Battista Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico, together with views by Canaletto and others. A group of Italian caricatures is also included.
IMAGE: Professor Lorenz Eitner. Photo by Kathy Kirby.
Freidenrich Family Gallery
Robert Motherwell
May 6 - November 15, 2009
This rotation features works by the American abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), who graduated from Stanford University in 1936. Along with his contemporaries including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Motherwell focused on the energy and emotion in art-making. This rotation includes loans from the Marmor Collection in addition to works from the collection.
IMAGE: Robert Motherwell (U.S.A., 1915-1991). Harvest, in Scotland, 1973. Lithograph with collage. Lent by The Marmor Foundation.
Freidenrich Family Gallery
Drive-by Shooting: Photographs by Robert Frank
May 6 - November 15, 2009
After emigrating from Switzerland in 1947, Robert Frank (b. 1924) began to document his travels throughout the United States. With a camera and old car, Frank began a solitary road trip shooting photos that span from coast to coast. His black and white photographs of ordinary objects and city scenes encapsulate a sense of loneliness and banality, reflecting Frank's personal experience with American life and landscape. The exhibition features examples from The Americans, Frank's most celebrated body of work.
IMAGE: Robert Frank (U.S.A., b. Switzerland, 1924). Detroit, 1955. Gelatin-silver print. Gift of Raymond B. Gary.
Rowland K. Rebele Gallery and Geballe Family Balcony
The Metaphysics of Notation
March 18, 2009 - March 28, 2010
This graphic score composed by Stanford professor Mark Applebaum is the current Faculty Choice on view. Inspired by the venue and its performance opportunities, this installation wraps around the Geballe Family Balcony overlooking the Main Lobby, and is anchored in the Rowland K. Rebele Gallery. Weekly, various musicians perform their interpretations of Applebaum's score. Performances are held between noon and 1 pm each Friday.
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Madeleine H. Russell Gallery
Chinese Contemporary Art on loan from Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Kwee
While Chinese contemporary art demonstrates the continuity of cultural tradition in the use of media and imagery that resonate with the past, it also mirrors the dramatic changes that China has undergone in the recent past, particularly since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. Liu Xiaodong's recent oil painting A Highway Near the Yangzi is among works on view.