Museum Quality: A Book of 30 Postcards
Museum Quality: A Book of 30 Postcards
Museum Quality: Paintings from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco collects thirty works from the esteemed collections of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. Together, the museums comprise the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco which holds one of the world’s greatest collections of paintings with distinguished works spanning multiple countries and centuries. This book of thirty color reproductions, bound in a handy postcard collection, demonstrates the breadth and quality of the museums’ noted collection of paintings from the 15th century to the present day. Perforated for easy removal, mail the postcards, or keep the book for your own collection. Each postcard measures 4.75 x 6.5 in.
The set contains the following images:
- Robert Bechtle, Four Palm Trees, 1969
- Martin Johnson Heade, Orchid and Hummingbird, ca. 1885
- Gustave Caillebotte, Sunflowers along the Seine, ca. 1885–1886
- Clark Hobart, The Blue Bay: Monterey, ca. 1914
- Rolph Scarlett, Abstraction XI, ca. 1940
- Edmund Charles Tarbell, Blue Veil, 1898
- Charles Courtney Curran, Afternoon in the Cluny Garden, Paris, 1889
- Jean-François Raffaëlli, The Absinthe Drinkers (Les déclassés), 1881
- John Singer Sargent, Le verre de porto (A Dinner Table at Night), 1884
- Dieric Bouts, Virgin and Child, ca. 1460
- Bernice Bing, Mayacamas No. 6, March 12, 1963
- Paul Cézanne, Forest Interior, ca. 1898–1899
- Chiura Obata, Lake Basin in the High Sierra, ca. 1930
- Florine Stettheimer, Still Life with Flowers, ca. 1921
- George Hitchcock, Tulip Culture, 1889
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Love and the Maiden, 1877
- Edward Hopper, Portrait of Orleans, 1950
- Konstantin Makovsky, The Russian Bride's Attire, 1889
- George Caleb Bingham, Boatmen on the Missouri, 1846
- William Joseph McCloskey, Oranges in Tissue Paper, ca. 1890
- Claude Monet, Water Lilies, ca. 1914–1917
- Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias, 1925
- Édouard Manet, At the Milliner’s, 1881
- Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park 116, 1979
- Georges Seurat, Eiffel Tower, ca. 1889
- Frederic Edwin Church, Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell, 1791