Event Details

End: November 28, 2016
Contact: mmwhite@stanford.edu
More Info: http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/Water.html

New Cantor Exhibition Presents Works by Eminent Artists that Influenced Californians’ Attitudes about Water

California: The Art of Water

July 13 to November 28, 2016

Stanford, California—From July 13 to November 28, 2016, the Cantor Arts Center will present California: The Art of Water, a major new exhibition devoted to artistic portrayals of California’s most precious resource. Featuring more than 50 works made by eminent artists and photographers including Albert Bierstadt, David Hockney, William Keith, Richard Misrach and Carleton Watkins, California: The Art of Water explores objects made over the last two centuries that helped to shape ideas about water in California. It includes pictures of pristine waterways in the wilderness and depictions of the immense and growing system of waterworks that the state’s towns, cities and agriculture required—titanic dams and aqueducts that ran for hundreds of miles. The exhibition links visions of natural beauty and progress with depictions of places where patterns of water use created devastation.