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American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art

"American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art" celebrates one of the most transformative gifts of art in the history of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Anchored by the works of Impressionist and Realist masters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the collection describes the dynamic and complicated ways in which American art was shaped both by its international influences and by its regional character.

 
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco published "American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art", in celebration of the promised bequest by Barbro and Bernard Osher. Authored by Lauren Palmor, associate curator of American art, this catalogue includes an introductory essay, “Finding Beauty at Home and Abroad, 1848–1960: The Bernard and Barbro Osher Collection of American Art.” Along with featuring fifty-eight scholarly essays contextualizing each of the sixty-one collection works within the larger frames of American art and social history. Hardcover, 276 pages.

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