Artists at Work
Cantor Arts Center
Stanford University
328 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
September 9, 2015 – January 18, 2016

Now on view at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Artists at Work is an exhibition with a focus on the creative processes of artists, featuring an unlikely mixture of historical and contemporary materials. The exhibition, inspired by the museum’s recent acquisition of Richard Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks and Edward Hopper’s painting New York Corner (both on view concurrently), explores the reality and representation of artistic work through a number of thematic approaches. Works from the Cantor’s permanent collection are presented alongside and in juxtaposition with contemporary works loaned by private individuals and galleries, organized around ideas of artistic inspiration and source material, the role of a preliminary study, the significance of place, the influence of technology and globalization on creation, etc. Artists at Work includes work by Édouard Manet, J. M. W. Turner, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Thomas Hart Benton, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Trevor Paglen, Garth Weiser, Hope Gangloff, Rachel Owens, Gillian Wearing, Edward Ruscha, and Eleanor Antin, among others.
 
Also on view at the Cantor Arts Center:
Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed
September 9, 2015 – August 22, 2016

Edward Hopper: New York Corner
September 9, 2015 – August 22, 2016
 

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Odalisque, 1825. Lithograph. Mortimer C. Leventritt Fund, 1969.174. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Odalisque, 1825. Lithograph. Mortimer C. Leventritt Fund, 1969.174. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Rachel Owens, Pop’s (White & Orange), 2015. Broken glass cast in resin and steel. Loan, courtesy of Zieher Smith & Horton, New York. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Rachel Owens, Pop’s (White & Orange), 2015. Broken glass cast in resin and steel. Loan, courtesy of Zieher Smith & Horton, New York. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.


Auguste Rodin, Study for Left Hand of Eustache de St. Pierre, c. 1886. Bronze. Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, 1998.359. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Auguste Rodin, Study for Left Hand of Eustache de St. Pierre, c. 1886. Bronze. Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, 1998.359. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.


 
Sol LeWitt, Bands of Lines in Four Directions–B, 1993. Woodcut. Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds 1995, 1995.14. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Sol LeWitt, Bands of Lines in Four Directions–B, 1993. Woodcut. Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds 1995, 1995.14. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.


 
Richard Earlom, The Royal Academy of Arts, 1773. Mezzotint. Museum Purchase Fund, 1975.142.1. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Richard Earlom, The Royal Academy of Arts, 1773. Mezzotint. Museum Purchase Fund, 1975.142.1. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.


 
Edward Jean Steichen (U.S.A., b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973), Henri Matisse Working on the Sculpture La Serpentine, c. 1908. Platinum print. Anonymous gift, 1971.97. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Edward Jean Steichen (U.S.A., b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973), Henri Matisse Working on the Sculpture La Serpentine, c. 1908. Platinum print. Anonymous gift, 1971.97. Courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.