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Legion of Honor Museum

1/3/2017

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The Legion of Honor Museum offer unique insight into the art historical, political, and social movements of the previous 4,000 years of human history. Holdings include European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts; ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; and one of the nation’s largest repositories of works of art on paper.
 
It houses European art and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a neoclassical building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge.
 
The museum contains a representative collection of European art, the largest portion of which is French. Its most distinguished collection is of sculpture by Auguste Rodin. Casts of some of his most famous works are on display, including one of The Thinker in the Court of Honor. However, there are individual works by many other artists, including François Boucher, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, David, El Greco, Giambattista Pittoni, Rubens, and many of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists—Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Seurat, Cézanne and others. There are also representative works by key 20th century figures such as Braque and Picasso, and works of contemporary artists like Gottfried Helnwein and Robert Crumb.
 
Collection Highlights
  • Icon of Saints John the Baptist and Minias, Bicci di Lorenzo (15th century)
  • St. Francis Venerating the Crucifix, El Greco, 1595
  • St. John the Baptist, El Greco, 1600
  • The Tribute Money, Rubens, 1612
  • Descent from the Cross, Giambattista Pittoni, 1750
  • The Age of Bronze, Auguste Rodin, 1875
  • Trotting Horse Edgar Degas, 1881
  • The Kiss, Auguste Rodin, 1884
  • The Grand Canal, Claude Monet, 1908
  • Waterlilies, Claude Monet, 1914
  • The Grand Canal, Venice, 1908 by Claude Monet.
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