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4. 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS
US artists included here are O'Keeffe, de Kooning, Pollock, Warhol, and Kline. One
of the perennial hits of the collection is Jeff Koons' iconic ceramic sculpture Michael
Jackson and Bubbles (1988).
5. BAY AREA ARTISTS
San Francisco Bay Area artists are also represented on the second floor, and include
Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Theibaud, and Clyfford Still, all with international repu-
tations. Bay Area figurative painters in the collection include Elmer Bishoff, and
David Park. Most noteworthy, perhaps, is California Artist (1982), a humorous
sculptural self-portrait by Robert Arneson in glazed stoneware.
6. LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS
Latin American art is represented most forcefully by the work of muralist Diego
Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. Other Latin American painters represented include
Wilfredo Lam, and JoaquĆ­n Torres-Garcia.
7. PHOTOGRAPHY
One of the museum's strengths; exhibits may include masterpieces by Man Ray, An-
sel Adams, and Edward Weston, as well as more avant-garde works.
8. ELECTRONIC & DIGITAL ART
Established in 1987, the collection includes multimedia works, moving-image pieces,
and video installations by such artists as Brian Eno, Bill Viola, Dara Birnbaum, Mat-
thew Barney, and Nam June Paik.
9. TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
The museum's temporary exhibition spaces may include educational programs, in-
teractive programs, or retrospective exhibitions of the work of contemporary artists
such as Yoko Ono and Eva Hess, or the photography of Victorian author Lewis Car-
roll.
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