Truth and Illusion Interpreting San Francisco Identities Grace

Truth and Illusion: Interpreting San Francisco Identities Grace Hanford and Grace Hale ART 200: Museum Studies Let's have fun in San Francisco: A Handbook to the City (1939)

The Big Idea ~Narrative that explains the exhibition ~Exploring how the city has been depicted the past 150 years Etchings of San Francisco Through the Years (1965) Old California (1924)

Eadweard Muybridge, Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill (1877)

Cementing the Big Idea Truth vs. Illusion ● ● Broader understanding of the objects Ability for viewer to interpret for themselves Realism vs. romanticism Multiple views of San Francisco The City That Is (1909)

San Francisco Since 1872: A Pictorial History of Seven Decades (1946)

Earthquake and Fire Days of 1906 (1998; reprint of 1923 narrative with contemporary watercolors)

The San Francisco Oracle (1991 facsimile of 1966 -68 edition)

Exhibition Group Responsibilities ● ● Curatorial Design Publicity Digital Collaboration between all groups: ▪ ▪ ▪ Determining the Big Idea Further developing concepts Reviewing and selecting objects Writing texts Discussing organization

How do we bring these ideas to life? 1) Further refine concepts 2) Determine exhibition layout and organization 3) Installation!

The exhibition is on display from April 30 th to June 1 st Reception and Talk on May 10 th 4: 30 -5: 30 Beginning at Thacher Gallery and ending in the Donohue Rare Book Room

Art 200 Spring 2018 Victoria Fraire Delaney Gibbons Grace Hale Grace Hanford Corinne Ladner Rachall Lee Claire Robinson Jordan Sandoval Leo Shanaberger Angela Ting Savannah Winchell A special thank you to… Professor Karen Fraser John Hawk, Head Librarian, Donohue Rare Book Room