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.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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.
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![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9329](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u2f-eoe_RRiAm53k-q07npz-awRPSw_tMRlHqPwEKe_EfgVFqZr4mrNO-saiBTmMzqqMV0Vge14lf9H58Ppo9aKmx0RF6kFORlznZRAVRemPQnhe7-Vw2HvF9b8xOT=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9343](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vIiWX249ei5YIK-4ir8LZdeWbrPxlT95j1vec0XIE210s7JFK-RZqC36INwNE-pcLCouTU5oLHkXP6CULyOrLU24uNT-SvXIJD1w8QTvwQIhqVaP3gvZqQHdgLCk5r=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9344](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tBSy7WOkq62Mv2L307ZIAqmm2Dpt32tetb-Zph-HpZn5AqeUHiT7CIXRHd4JZM2prKlJb-ojTDd0ek_-7mGKJ4XVZc70Nccmv-HVlssCvCup-f8Zu6NPyIqfPJxJ_B=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9330](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tDEBd-DC3SjajIQ8o5ziRgRV0t5qjIE3GeMTio2rpbbphJt-fK4mAWMjwndfY71aLRIrjYpqpkGDh0bRfZWhbihhL6Um3aa1-OliihrRLGBa-yBHJ-drpSZCauo9g-3Q=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9394](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vNU7thji8o19qg64veE7lbFaOFBtgmLxjmw_hN2GwdLMESUGWvSPwY-NoI7ql08hS9d5Wj4UbVvUuxbEjDJo_pd9YrzzriJD9n87WGgcoait0oM5U8HU0JwAptKLHn=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9390](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_suj588caFf5ple_t_teYcc_G6-2Mr1Wl3ZVdMuLY2hF25JTbZE5JFMlrh6EnR2Al5mS2IFB9r8RhmV1zmJt-cmdUdmlawW6t0Uztt-01g4LYZYluqOtApPp5FkJx3m7w=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9389](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vw0nMOXfG8UdxqrzvzQt1dxCJS42J7VgQJ1gcZun1YPJ3GM98bSino3hPv2S9ThC4FMVeJLN41guqaoxxGbiZ69CyoMlrZQ4g3RzDHl4A__p1NG1t9nmSSlou9p4sHPw=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9407](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_slpaxmp_mUIteQQNbG407AzBGm7h6QsWREP_OESEp2ohiMM25ioyAcDDAZ2dpbe6fRUNpsCkN_RFbo8MggS7Z62EmA4Nru1BW6wrxnrnazkJrUk4b5DCogFnNh7Me4Gw=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9336](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_udYZeyOimmitdxDoguYRybxZeYSZEHzMpzh376tMfSG7wJr-l3o9tp9wxGI3iWNmgKC-TRlfHjHj6s2uKu64m08eu9FDxKos6sudNIyJgW7gTsdEy6ZgtayIYlx_yhyA=s0-d)
![De Young Museum, San Francisco, December 2011 _ 9337](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vkU827TDrjPFJBQh38NWdpu5D4p8IAWC_X3hWcD6Fnh7TgdmC_lzulT_PZJh2tK4xHbvmSQ6aPNkvx46lVOPjGQES10GVrC6g_dakK6VhFrO5y_3IHDn20TQnkmPfblQ=s0-d)
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.
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De Young Museum,
Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco
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