The Cantor Arts Center presents the major exhibition
California: The Art of Water.
Opens Wednesday, July 13 and runs through Monday, November 28.
Free and open to the public.
More information at museum.stanford.edu/news_room/Water
CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
328 LOMITA DRIVE
STANFORD, CA 94305
650-723-4177
California: The Art of Water examines the way artists and photographers have portrayed one of California’s most precious resources over the last two centuries. The exhibition features over 50 works of water subjects by eminent artists, including Ansel Adams, Albert Bierstadt, David Hockney, Richard Misrach, Carleton Watkins, and others.
The exhibition links visions of natural beauty and progress with depictions of places where patterns of water use destroyed thriving environments. Many 19th-century artists created images that portray California as a place of pristine lakes and rivers, while later painters and photographers captured the immense and growing system of waterworks–titanic dams, pipelines, and aqueducts—that moved water for hundreds of miles across the state. The visitor to California: The Art of Water will encounter works of art that raise urgent questions about the human relationship with water in the state.