On April 6, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco launches Free Saturdays!

Every Saturday, San Francisco residents enjoy free general admission to both of the City’s beloved museums, the de Young and Legion of Honor. Please check the website for exhibit info/programs planned by the museum committee. 

Lower school recently learned about work of Georgia O'Keeffe and Wayne Thiebaud and these artists (among MANY others) represented at de Young museum. 

It's a wonderful opportunity to visit Legion of Honor with your Upper school students to see works of master of Baroque period (we just reviewed Baroque period in art).

"Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was celebrated for his skillful handling of oil paint; his sensuous coloring; and his taut, action-packed depictions of dramatic narratives. Early Rubens focuses on what is arguably the artist’s most innovative period of production, from 1608 until about 1620. It was during these years that Rubens rose to the highest ranks of European painting. He did so through a series of social and artistic choices that laid the groundwork for his later international fame and established a visual style that would guide ambitious painters for generations to come."