Tenth anniversary

Join us for a community celebration and two landmark exhibitions.

The Anderson Collection at Stanford University marks the milestone of its tenth anniversary in September 2024 with two exhibitions that celebrate the museum’s roots while introducing new perspectives on the permanent collection. Originated as one of the world’s most outstanding private assemblies of modern and contemporary American art, the Anderson Collection is now a home to thousands of students, faculty, staff, artists, and visitors who can be in direct relationship with extraordinary artworks in an inspiring environment. 

Bringing It Home (September 15, 2024–February 16, 2025) is a celebration of the love of living with art and foundational relationships between influential artists and the Anderson family. The Anderson family home was a vibrant nexus for art discussions and shared meals, and fostered a rich tapestry of community and conversation. While artwork was installed in every room, the kitchen was the place the family started each day and shared space with personally significant artworks.

The Anderson Collection presents a recreation of the family’s kitchen wall with artwork by artists they knew and admired including Philip Guston, Frank Stella, and Josef Albers. This salon-style arrangement over the family’s breakfast table will be accompanied by related correspondence and photographs, further highlighting the importance these relationships held for the family and artists.

An Expanded Lens (September 22, 2024–August 17, 2025) invites viewers to reimagine their relationship to artwork in the Anderson Collection by providing new interpretations of the permanent collection through historic arrangements and contemporary pairings on loan from the Anderson family.

This exhibition, across the entire second floor, showcases the voices and curatorial collaboration of Stanford art history PhD candidates Emily Chun, Christian Gonzalez Ho, and Dejan Vasic. These students took personal approaches to arranging and interpreting artworks based on themes that include perception, geographic influence, and questions of meaning and embodiment. Contemporary loans installed alongside permanent collection works invite discovery and include painting, sculpture, and video by Tauba Auerbach, Nick Cave, Mary Corse, Frederick Eversely, Liam Everett, Claire Falkenstein, Julie Mehretu, Yvonne Jacquette, and Ed Ruscha. The exhibition also showcases significant influences on the formation of the Anderson Collection from luminaries such as scholar William Rubin of NY MoMA, who provided the Andersons with a model for living with art and gallerist David McKee, who introduced the family to groundbreaking contemporary artists.

An Expanded Lens centers the museum as a home for living with art and invites the community to consider the meaning-making capacity of the collection and explore the space by experiencing this constellation of artwork anew. 

To learn more about the full year of tenth anniversary programming, visit anderson.stanford.edu/ac10.