Anderson Art Collection to Open at Stanford

A new Bay Area art museum will open its doors this fall at Stanford University to showcase a who's-who of American post-war greats, including a large sampling of modern California masters. The works are a gift from Bay Area collectors Harry and Mary Anderson. KQED Newsroom visited the Andersons in their home to see what it's like to live in a house full of masterpieces - and why they're sharing their acclaimed collection with the public.

[@gshaw55661]

Mr Anderson was such an amazing man, surely missed... may his soul rest in peace.

[@ericmcentire2712]

Plus I remember reading something Pocasso did with his Art that brings a Great thought to meditate and Focus on Humm oh Yes

[@krpbdp]

I've viewed many of these videos of personal collections and this is the first I've seen which I consider quality and timeless art.

[@pablopicoso]

A couple who understood how art 🖼 enriches one’s life by being present in the moment with spirit captured by the artist

[@tamsinthai]

Shame not everyone who isn't fabulously wealthy doesn't have the same opportunity.

[@marionlyon7349]

What a wonderful collection of art! Thank you for choosing to save these outstanding works for generations to come. A great pleasure to see, even online.

[@danthedodo4586]

The art is great. Watching a couple that still carries the passion and love these two had is amazing. Rest easy you two.

[@howdy268]

Such generous patrons truly a gift to society... Thankyou

[@anchoranchor3495]

Rest in piece, Guys. Thank you for your great, smart, outstanding, meaningful life.

[@richardbocanegra5945]

I love this couple.. they have a great eye, beautiful collection 🎉❤

[@buddhahoo1]

Brings me joy to see their collection.

[@nonel4515]

That is Nuts. A billion dollars worth of art, sculpture, and even furniture in that little (relatively) home.

[@gregdahlen4375]

wonder if they worried about home invasion

[@richardbocanegra5945]

There’s nothing nuts about being around beautiful artwork that you love.. I’m sure it filled their spirit 🎉❤

[@boujimobbin9530]

Beautiful couple amazing hearts and a gorgeous collection ! Goals !!

[@carleanne]

What an amazing collection and what an amazing couple. Thank you.

[@azurieone3002]

Beautiful collection!!

[@griselolivero1122]

Glad I saw some amazing pieces love them all💖

[@SinewMinew]

The latest Rothko sold for 77.5 million US dollars. If the Anderson’s sold their collection of 151 paintings they would be Billionaires. The act of donating it was selfless but I would have preferred they let the collection tour around the world to allow countless millions of people the opportunity to view such a variety of important abstract expressionist paintings that made a massive impact on not only the art world but history as well. A truly amazing collection. I can’t imagine having such work in your personal home, a Pollock above your bed (yes, please). I do wish they were able to secure one of Yayoi Kusama’s net paintings, perhaps something from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vassily Kandinsky and Joan Mitchel or Sam Francis to round out the collection although I wonder if the style of those artists would suit their interests.Well done, Anderson’s, for having a great eye allowing for the procurance of such wonderful art.

[@henrylivingstone2971]

And who’s gonna pay for the touring fees? The insurance? The shipping fees? The conservators? It isn’t a feasible endeavor to try and do a moving exhibition.

[@Francispia]

@@henrylivingstone2971she meant it well, but it is such a naive idea indeed. People around the world can visit Stanford to watch the exhibition.

[@tangokaleidos1926]

Donating it is just as profitable as selling it. Please don't think it is an act of charity. This is how the art world works.

[@Mac11-92]

I think theres a Sam Francis at @4:04 and a Joan Mitchell @5:08. They did say at the beginning when they began collecting, their focus was on building a collection of American artists, so Yayoi and Vassily wouldn't fit their portfolio.

[@SergioRojas-ne1ds]

This couple are amazing.

[@ChaseLangfordArtist]

wow!! magnificent collection! I'd love to see what they refill there house with.... would love to see another video of their new collection.

[@jewishwhitetiger]

Great video! Nice people and love the art!

[@robertspies4695]

When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s Saga Foods was providing all the food for my college cafeteria. Pretty ordinary fare usually, except on the parent's weekend. Glad to see some of the profits went to buy some good art. I like that they collected some of the Bay Area Figurative School; Diebenkorn, Park, Neri, etc. and kept it the SF Bay Area although I have not been able to eat Mac and cheese for the last 59 years.

[@abcdefghi9]

What a phenomenal collection.I hope I can collect pieces like these someday.I would love to amass a huge collection.

[@roseagaatsz8403]

Beautiful 🖼. Great couple 👀

[@1geniusthinker676]

This piece works perfectly with home！

[@linuszimmermann6120]

Great Collection! Fabulous works!

[@cookingwithlove6313]

Very Nice collection of Arts....They know how to APPRECIATE ARTS/PAINTINGS...through their senses, feelings, visions.....in which not everyone could UNDERSTAND ..the LANGUAGE OF ARTS..:)

[@YSPDJapan]

Could you imagine donating such quantity and quality that a major university builds a museum just to house what you're giving them? Most of those works are worth double/triple digit millions. Insane.

[@beluwuga]

To be able to say, we first collect Picasso and Monet, then Kooning, Pissarro, Pollock, Henri Matisse, Rodin. To be able to see them with our bare eyes is a miracle per se, to be able to know them is a gateway to see the world. To be able to own them? Heck to be able owning one from their art studios, by one of the students perhaps is art prodigy in itself, yet owning a piece of Rodin or Monet is the peak of modern-impressionist collecting, and Contemporary painting such as Picasso it’s beyond lunacy to own them. All of them together, you can almost see a timeline of art movements from your coffee table, or kitchen. That took astounding to another meaning. And the way they’re able to collect them, without a curator, that’s outstanding. The passion of collecting is beyond human logic.

[@monkeygraborange]

Magnificent art, furniture they probably bought when they got married... the very definition of collectors!

[@blondelebanese9922]

monkeygraborange Very classy couple 😎

[@oltedders]

@@Zzzzaaaakkkk The smell of money was coming out of my screen!

[@suearengo6839]

very nice collection

[@claytondefreitas4124]

That’s what a collector is all about a custodian of works brought together over years enjoyed by them then graciously donated in sizable amount or portions so others may view …then as art collectors we start collecting new works once more …fabulous collection

[@mikedunkle6709]

fantastic, although it would be nice to be able to stand back from the larger pieces in that narrow corridor , seems abit over powering in that space, then again, maybe that is what they are going for..well done folks!

[@tashilhamo9807]

Very beautiful!🌹🌹

[@leonardoluc6362]

My compliments to this nice generous couple for me the Willem de Kooning is fab.

[@brannonmcclure2786]

Thank you.

[@P.W.I]

Fine art！！✨🎵

[@tanyabeecher959]

Beautiful home :)

[@ElmwoodParkHulk]

Wonderful ❤️

[@louisezanghellini9182]

love the art ....l want to hang-out with the owners .

[@sebastientanguay4866]

They have all the best work.

[@anonymousfellowindian]

Gifted. 👍

[@deirdsmelons]

Fabulous

[@ghoulape6976]

Very interest which painting they hung over their daughters bed.🧐

[@christianegonbarnthaler1426]

super art

[@andresglucas]

Hi hola.los saludo por apoyar el art.gracias

[@teguhsoepriyono1112]

amazing....... Anderson make art like Faith. Filantrophia. and wisdom

[@csilva7837]

Encantador viver entre tanta arte.

[@chitterville7599]

Amazing art and so it goes , creative genius is a JOY and to Stanford University , I plan to visit” Lucifer “ the Abstract work of Pollocks just amazing tizzeey.com ! ❤️

[@marianszarf6267]

I have the same problem. Large images hang in too narrow corridor.

[@Seten_Tomh]

Isn't Saga Foods the outfit that served food to residents at Brock University in the 1970s?

[@socrodrigo-bb6109]

It Would it be great if one of mine appear on their wall too just a wish..

[@swiesemadwi]

Art belongs to the people.

[@nonel4515]

hahahaha - yes! Let the artist starve!

[@MTMF.london]

I think they should have hired a curator/advisor for their collection. There are many wonderful and important pieces but several duff ones too.

[@alfrancis8]

Collect what you love.... and as he said any mistakes are their own. Its much more interesting to see what they truly liked rather than looking at a curated collection of what they were TOLD was valuable.

[@JimmyCee123]

RIP to them both

[@conversacionesconmipadre]

The daughter is surely a millionaire many times over soley because of her parent's art collection. One single painting, like the Rothko, may be worth some cool millions. Lucky B.

[@jacekpokrak9258]

Compmaturism sometimes explores that part of beauty which is covered in routine, craftsmanship, and speculation. Therefore, the eyes of many collectors are turned to the Compmaturism of the new trend in order to experience something truly.

[@guygoodwin2104]

It makes one more accepting of the 1% when you see how many donate their art to public institutions.

[@DanBlabbers]

Donating art to a public institute gives them a tax write off. They loan it out, don't pay taxes, then get their paintings back in a few years.

[@EzeICE]

@@DanBlabbers In either case it's a win-win.

[@DiamondCutter423]

I like hearing him say that the art belongs to the world, and Stanford did say that it was available free to the public.

[@belindagray9668]

Wow

[@taoforte8988]

I'm going to gift them one of my pieces

[@elizabethmanets8710]

Herman Miller chairs, primo

[@MTMF.london]

Charles/Ray Eames chairs.

[@gregorywintermute5923]

Mr and Mrs Anderson would you like to buy a Picasso case?

[@gregdahlen4375]

between working the food business and acquiring the art they were pretty busy

[@Timwit84]

My God

[@Sharperthanu1]

I cant imagine having parents who are so wealthy they could afford EVEN ONE of those paintings!

[@PHlophe]

anne sinclair

[@vatchesolakian6361]

People who truly love art seek out and support unknown artists . An authentic collector would prefer to walk to work than drive and use that money to buy art instead . Everything else is a name dropping status symbol by people who've never seen a work of art with their own eyes and everything they say about it is someone else's words.

[@carlosrivas2012]

Cuando tienes millones de dólares, pero el gusto y la sensibilidad artística de un hamster.

[@belindagray9668]

Here is my Newest

[@alo6438]

天啊！不知怎麽反應！

[@vsboy2577]

Rich people

[@omegaman5663]

I just hope they got state of the art security beefing these up...

[@ericmcentire2712]

well my style Art is intelligent Art that tells Deep stuff there guessing about Art I would a Painting in Cubist abract to David Anderson Art Gallery I worked there for 2 weeks the Guy that Helped run things there about 25 years ago loved my Painting It was called Mental Bondage I'm going to do a new one and a second one I called Escape from Mental Bondage part 2 with Deep poetry Word is Bond I Want to see how this Project comes out intelligent Art Duhhhh

[@ericmcentire2712]

I mean I sold a Cubist Art and Deep Abstract Painting for 200 Dollars to David Anderson Art Gallery I'm Doing mines with Deep poetry on stuff I can hide from thieves till I get things in order no one's ever heard of my kind of Art it's a part of the Deepness to peep this word up

[@yvesfremin4388]

Quelle collection ! ! ! Yves Frémin, peintre à Plouézec (Côtes d'Armor) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mabHaWR8q7KXZrs

[@louhak5592]

Take a peak by hitting my thumbnail..🧐👍 until u have a LOUHAWK masterpiece then your collection is great.

[@rschloch]

You know you have a proper art collection when the beneficiary builds a gallery to house it…

[@6530517]

Can I come over to make some real art for you guys?

[@IrradioMan]

their grown-up daughter looks like camilla parker bowles

[@gogo-word]

I love collectors of art especially when they have disregarded things other less visionary people thought was so important to a good life

[@enricogarff4210]

Watch the Intro to "Brother Colour and Sister Light here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYDMnmevqbJ6m9k !!

[@gregorywintermute5923]

Vase

[@brianlandon3516]

Matthew is HOT!

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Oh that such people and their noble notions were how America presented itself to the world but no.

[@Justmyopinionlol]

This generation is full of BS ideas. The poor ones call it material comfort while the rich ones call it art. Basically hoarding and wasting money. I hear that even museums are picky now as they have too many rich people wanting to "give" them stuff. Also, that house is definitely not kid friendly.

[@jacekpokrak9258]

Compmaturism collection 2018 J.J Pokrak

[@HolographicSweater]

ugh awful. 'the 5 colors dull the eye." look up "hedonic treadmill". you should not live with all these classic masterpieces, maybe 1 in your home, this is how you jade yourself. that is, if this person even has a genuine appreciation of art and doesnt just collect them as status symbols, as most owners of this caliber of painting

[@austindarrenor]

I think you nailed it when you said "collect them as status symbols". Outside of that they're annoying to most people because they look like kindergarten projects.

[@TheAcenightcreeper]

This art belongs to the world...40 years after we kept it private. Nobody loves art more than I, but the art collecting world is so corrupted at this point, it is just another tool for the 1% of the 1% to get more wealth. I make well into the six figures in my income, with no kids, 35 years old and it is nearly impossible for me to purchase any truly blue chip works. Young collectors face an impossible collecting reality these days. In the 60s-early 80’s, you could buy Warhol’s, Rauschenberg, still, Rothko, de Kooning, you name it for well under a million for nearly all of their best works. To even buy emerging contemporary art, with no secondary market results, in 2018, you are looking at prices for quality work, Starting at 25-100k per piece. Even accounting for inflation, that is nearly 10x the prices paid just 30-35 years ago. This means you cannot take as much chance in investing in artists careers and makes it IMPOSSIBLE for someone making under seven figures to collect art, let alone blue chip, museum grade art. Additionally, the best emerging artists works are reserved for these billionaire collectors by their galleries because of the cachet of belonging to that collection, again, making it impossible for beginning collectors to obtain future great artists. The art market needs a major correction, bigger than what happened in 2008 in order to sustain itself because right now those pieces are simply being traded between billionaires. The market is dependent on those collectors because no new collectors are entering the market, making it extremely top heavy.

[@fritz4345]

You have to buy contemporary art now from young artists, just like some of these collectors did when they where young. If you focus on what you like you will never be disappointed even if "your" artist won't be a future superstar in the art market.

[@unclemonkey8285]

I only collect baseball cards and to a lesser degree stamps. I enjoy the smallness of it... That said, I have a few prints of Joseph Pennell. Early 20th century prolific printer and artist. His WW1 recruitment poster is amazing. I collect using the motto "Buy what you like. Buy what you can afford"

[@TheAcenightcreeper]

Uncle Monkey i think you both are missing the point of what I was talking about. I do collect what I love, but the main point of my argument is that 70 years ago, a lowly postal employee named Victor Ganz and his wife Sally were able to buy blue chip works by Picasso, who was the most expensive artist you could purchase. With saving, they were able to amass an enormous collection of art works by established artists, who were in museums already, including nearly 40 picasso works on canvas. My main point is that the art market has inflated so much that even art from students fresh out of their MFA program are going for 25k-100k dollars. This makes it impossible for anyone but the richest people to support and invest in emerging artists, the same way you have seen these collectors do. It is not about staying in budget or collecting what you love, it is about a broken market that is in need of a serious correction if it is going to sustain itself in the long run.

[@TheAcenightcreeper]

fritz4345 Uncle Monkey i think you both are missing the point of what I was talking about. I do collect what I love, but the main point of my argument is that 70 years ago, a lowly postal employee named Victor Ganz and his wife Sally were able to buy blue chip works by Picasso, who was the most expensive artist you could purchase. With saving, they were able to amass an enormous collection of art works by established blue chip artists, who were in museums already, including nearly 40 picasso works on canvas, on a postal workers salary! My main point is that the art market has inflated so much that even art from students fresh out of their MFA program are going for 25k-100k dollars. This makes it impossible for anyone but the richest people to support and invest in emerging artists, the same way you have seen these collectors do. It is not about staying in budget or collecting what you love, it is about a broken market that is in need of a serious correction if it is going to sustain itself in the long run. Your statement about buying contemporary art is ignoring what my point was, you simply cannot invest in the same caliber of work and artists in 2018 as you could even 50-60 years again. The works that these collectors were buying were not all emerging artists, these were mid-career artists who already were having retrospectives at museums and being shown in blue chip galleries that you could buy for $500-$1000 at the HIGH END. At comparison, that would be like buying a christopher wool, a mark bradford or a george condo, at 2018 dollar value for $3500-$7000 when in reality, Those works are going for 1-3 million, depending on size and medium for new work entering the primary market for those artists.

[@fritz4345]

@@TheAcenightcreeper You are absolutely right. This would not be possible today. There is an obscene amount of money around for some these days.

[@a.p.344]

Artmajer Ala Panfiliuk

[@notyou6674]

i cant see much art here... i guess when you can make just as much and more money with far less effort its a no brainer. especially when schmucks will rave and holler about how brilliant it is regardless of what it actually looks like or means.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Ignorant see you NT.

[@nonel4515]

Too bad it went to Stanford now. Now they are an evil place.

[@bodeaalex1142]

"We have an eye for art...". No, you have money.

[@glenncambray626]

Looks like a load of old rubbish to me.

[@austindarrenor]

It is rubbish, a bunch of slop. But some art critics amongst the GLBT crowd decided they were masterpieces, lol.

[@glenncambray626]

@@austindarrenor I actually made that statement as a bit of a joke. I had had a few drinks too many. Yet, I can't help thinking that these people are deluding themselves.These "artists"may come up with an interesting concept or two but does that make it art?And, is it really worth so much money?

[@austindarrenor]

@@glenncambray626 An art critic that has his college degrees and all that calls paintings like these great art in order to demoralize artists that actually do produce great art. A critic knows himself that he could never produce anything of any value artistically or he wouldn't be a critic. But whether it's actually art or not is near totally subjective person to person.

[@gregdahlen4375]

@@austindarrenor what do you call great art?

[@austindarrenor]

@@gregdahlen4375 Claude Monet, Grant Wood, John Singer Sargent, Wayne Thiebaud . . . I could go on and on. But whether it's great art or not is subjective and "in the eye of the beholder". On the plus side for paintings that people complain about as being slop and a ten yr old could do are worthwhile for interior decor especially in an office bldg. They can bring life and color to an otherwise dull office space or sometimes a home.

[@Rose-pz8es]

Ur rich thats why.....

[@SergioRojas-ne1ds]

If you want unusual art contact me.

[@tonybinda6905]

I refer to my art as Psychiatric Art.

[@citizensnid3490]

Mates you were had. A couple of pieces aren’t bad. Maybe I just don’t like Modern Art

[@oltedders]

You dont.

[@ziraprod6090]

Why give it to such a hate filled school?

[@mrsir1872]

when anyone says they have "the eye", its pretty much a sign they are a pretentious snob

[@pacificrules]

I swear, what do they see in those paintings, I can throw paint on a canvass and its art (I guess). But I still dont get it. 😂

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

You are ignorant. People like you don't matter.

[@pacificrules]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Considering I have more subscribers and videos than you do, I think I do matter. That just makes a you a hypocritically ignorant... interesting.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

@@pacificrules Ignorant see you NT.

[@pacificrules]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 ok, BYEEEEEEE

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

@@pacificrules Yeehaw you hapless see you NT.

[@tamsinthai]

'Tis a pity all of these art collectors could fund public museums so everyone gets to see them instead of keeping them for themselves to enjoy only. Shocked at the Pollock being hung over the kid's bed, who didn't even know what it was back then. So what was the point? Greed.

[@jca6778]

Someone has brainwashed these people into thinking this junk is great art. what a waste of money.

[@milootje007]

How did you even get to this video?

[@20zzxxx]

@@nrichardson5775 You, sadly, cannot stop thinking about the market value, and it gets in the way of your ability to discern between "mediocrity" and what you call good art. Remember most these works were once worth hundreds, not millions; and that's usually when their creation took place.

[@mexicanwootwoot]

Who's your favorite artist then?

[@lisaaugustin5400]

That comment was funny !!!

[@Thomas-fu8vp]

A homage to bad taste. They should have continued to collect European art as they started out.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Thick fcuk.

[@valterdigiacomo9544]

If you go into the srt and art collection to have it in the house is giving you a lot of passion and culture hidden inside the original only than

[@fabrizio483]

Lovely furniture soiled by ugly paintings.

[@unclemonkey8285]

Meh... but love their passion. Alot of cheap, dead, Dutch artists will be in vogue again. Maybe by the time that I am 95.

[@mightylonesome9426]

Seriously, the Andersons for the most part got robbed.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

You are bereft of intelligence.

[@mightylonesome9426]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 You are a classles snob who probably relies heavily on a thesaurus. Some of the scribbling in the Anderson's collection is bereft of effort on the artists behalf and appeals only to individuals who are bereft of good taste and common sense.