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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco [Published date: 2002]. Softcover, 112 pp; full color illustrations; 27 cm. Edited by Chad Coerver. Introduction by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA.
In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers with French flaps featuring Les valeurs personnelles (1952) by Rene Magritte on front and Still Life (Apur) (2001) by Sarah Sze on rear; light edgewear and faint surface scuffing to covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. This catalog introduces the outstanding holdings of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's painting and sculpture collection, with essays by Janet Bishop, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Molly Hutton, Clara Kim, Tara McDowell, and John S. Weber. It surveys landmark works representing the museum's growth since its 1995 move to the Mario Botta-designed building, tracing the evolution of twentieth- and twenty-first-century modern and contemporary art. Artists represented include Matisse, Derain, Braque, Marc, Jawlensky, Beckmann, Duchamp, Miro, Klee, Brancusi, Cornell, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Johns, Warhol, Stella, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Diebenkorn, Calder, Hesse, Nauman, Serra, Koons, Kiefer, Richter, Walker, and many others.