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Click here to see more photos from the Rose Mandel Exhibit. Visiting de Young Museum Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 deyoungmuseum.org 415-750-3600 Museum Hours Tickets can be purchased on site and on the de Young’s website: http://deyoung.famsf.org/ Visit the de Young Museum at http://deyoung.famsf.org/
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The Errand of the Eye: Photographs by Rose Mandel de Young Museum June 22–October 13, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO — The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to announce The Errand of the Eye: Photographs by Rose Mandel, the first full assessment of this dynamic artist. From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, Rose Mandel produced an original and poignant body of photographs, working closely with and among many of the Bay Area’s best-known artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Ansel Adams, and Minor White. Though lauded by her contemporaries and featured in significant exhibitions and publications during her lifetime, her work remains little known. After escaping Europe with her husband in 1942, Mandel came to the Bay Area and enrolled in the newly founded photography department of the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). She went on to serve as senior photographer for UC Berkeley’s art department, and in her personal time created intimate, powerful nature studies, portraits, and landscapes. Julian Cox, chief curator and founding curator of photography at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, emphasizes, “Mandel’s vision, at once informed, instinctive, and personal, placed her at the heart of some of the most vital artistic currents of her time.” Mandel’s work engaged a range of art movements, including Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Northern California modernist tradition represented by Adams and White, as well as the broader American landscape tradition embodied in the photographs of Harry Callahan and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. “Mandel’s refined craftsmanship and thorough understanding of psychology, surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism equipped her to produce a thoroughly original and evocative body of photographs,” notes Mr. Cox. Mandel’s lyrical sequence of in-and out-of-focus close-ups of vegetation titled The Errand of the Eye was first exhibited at the Legion of Honor in 1954. 60 years later, the de Young is proud to host Mandel’s first retrospective exhibition illuminating her rightful place in the history of modernist photography.
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