Another Look at De Young Museum in San Francisco

I have visited De Young Museum in San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Park many times and am very fond of this iconic but not uncontroversial architecture.  Every time, I found some startling new angle and even enchanting beauty.  Last December, when I returned for a special exhibit, Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, I sat in the beautiful garden for lunch for the first time and had wonderful views from many new angles and was grateful that the cafeteria was so crowded that I had to sit outside.  Disadvantage turned into advantage.

This building is muscular and startlingly forceful and I can understand that someone prefer the previous Spanish colonial building.  Hopefully, when the copper gains more green patinas, they will grew enchanted by this building as well.