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The art Museum is built as the Fine Arts Building for the Midwinter Expo. Designed in a Egyptian style, the building will later become a free, ublic museum, with the art from the Expo donated by the artists. The Sphinxes by Arthur Putnam remain in front. |
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California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 |
| 1894/04/00 |
Eric Pape |
Artist |
"The Young Spinner of Zeven" a painting by Eric Pape is awarded a medal at the California Midwinter International Exposition. |
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California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 |
| 1919/00/00 |
Louis Christian Mullgardt |
Architect |
Designed in the Spanish-Plateresque-style, the de Young museum is completed and formally transferred by de Young to the city's park commissioners (razed). |
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| 1979/04/05 |
John D Rockefeller III |
Benefactor |
Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd make a gift of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Mrs Daniel Sargent to the de Young Museum, San Francisco. |
Mrs Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner painting) |
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| 2000/12/31 |
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The former de Young Museum structure closes to the public. Historic elements such as the sphinxes, the original palm trees, and the Pool of Enchantment, will be retained or reconstructed at the new museum. |
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| 2005/10/15 |
Herzog and de Meuron Basel, Ltd |
Architects |
The new de Young museum building opens. The design weaves the museum into the natural environment of the park and provides open and light-filled spaces that facilitate and enhance the art-viewing experience. |
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| 2020/06/19 |
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A mob, apparently protesting discrimination in America, vandalize the Sphinxes at the de Young Museum. |
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