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San Francisco Art Institute

institute, San Francisco, California, United States
Also known as: California School of Fine Arts

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Adams

  • Ansel Adams
    In Ansel Adams: Maturity

    …of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) the first academic department to teach photography as a profession. He also revived the idea of the original (chemical) photographic print as an artifact, something that might be sold as an art object. His Portfolio I of 1948 offered 12 original…

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Rivera

  • Diego Rivera, seated in front of a mural depicting the American “class struggle,” 1933.
    In Diego Rivera

    …he painted murals for the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (1931), the Detroit Institute of Arts (1932), and Rockefeller Center in New York City (1933). His Man at the Crossroads fresco in Rockefeller Center offended the sponsors because the figure of Vladimir Lenin was in the picture;…

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