Day 1 – Thursday, September 24, 2009
The CCC arrived in San Francisco in the early afternoon and headed out for lunch at the popular Slanted Door restaurant. Afterward, the group walked to the first appointment to see the Gap Collection with a walkthrough given by Abner Nolan. The first work we saw was the impressive 60-foot tall Richard Serra sculpture, Charlie Brown (2000). Doris and Don Fisher (Gap’s CEOs) began collecting in the mid-70s and believed early on in collecting artist’s works throughout their lifetime, providing an insight into an artist’s entire career and practice. Most of the art collected are made after WWII by American and European artists and the collection includes artists such as Duane Hanson, Sol le Witt, George Segal, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Georg Baselitz, Chuck Close, and William Kentridge.
After an impressive tour, we were blown away again at the home of Robin Wright, the co-chair at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The private collection included works by Sol le Witt (just at the entrance), Tara Donovan, Liza Lou, Marcel Duchamp, Lawrence Weiner, Carl Andre, Martin Creed, Ed Ruscha, Sigmar Polke, Bruce Nauman, Thomas Ruff, Richard Prince, and Joseph Bueys, just to name a very few. It was impressive to learn how Wright’s family lives so intimately with the art, often working with artists on commissioned works.
The following day, we read in the paper that the Fisher’s collection will be housed at SFMOMA:
And just two days later, we learned that Don Fisher died at the age of 81: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/28/MN6E19TL93.DTL.
Donald Fisher with Brice Marden's "The Sister," a piece in his collection.
Photo: Mike Kane/ The Chronicle
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