SFMOMA LAUNCHES COLLECTIONS CAMPAIGN WITH 195 PROMISED GIFTS OF ART FROM BAY AREA COLLECTORS

Strategic Additions to SFMOMA's Collection—Including Major Works by Pollock, Nauman, Smith, Beuys, and Sherman—Support Plans to Expand the Museum and Transform the Visitor Experience The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announced that it has received an unprecedented 195 promised gifts of art from nine leading Bay Area collectors who are leading a campaign to strengthen the museum's collection. The pledges encompass major works by artists including Diane Arbus, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Bruce Nauman, Jackson Pollock, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, and David Smith, and span all media, from modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and design, to new media and conceptual-based works. For more information read the full release.

Image: Jackson Pollock, Black and White (Number 6), 1951; enamel on canvas; 56 x 45 in.; Promised gift of Helen and Charles Schwab; © 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Reproduction of this image is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of the copyright holder. Press Office San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street, San Francisco 415.357.4170 www.sfmoma.org © 2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. All rights reserved.

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