Cantor Family Guide 2
Learn new and fun facts about the art displayed at the Cantor with this handy family guide.
Learn new and fun facts about the art displayed at the Cantor with this handy family guide.
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Create a Cabinet of Curiosities<br />
Now that you’ve had a chance to explore Leland Stanford Jr.’s<br />
collection of prized objects, think about what you would feature in<br />
your cabinet of curiosities. What hobbies and interests will tell people<br />
the cabinet represents you? Here are two drawings that Mark Dion<br />
made.<br />
Draw your own museum collection in the cabinet below!<br />
Museum Manners<br />
Please look at the art with your eyes but do not touch it.<br />
Staying at least an arm’s length away is a good way to<br />
remember.<br />
If you get lost or have any questions about the art museum,<br />
friendly guards are stationed throughout the galleries. Say<br />
hello, and don’t be afraid to ask them for help if you need it.<br />
Children must always stay close to their parents or an adult<br />
supervisor.<br />
Remember to walk, not run, in the museum. Always be<br />
aware of your surroundings (art may be behind you).<br />
The Rodin Sculpture Garden is part of the museum, so we<br />
use our museum manners there even though we are outside.<br />
We can protect the art by not climbing on the sculpture.<br />
museum.stanford.edu | @cantorarts<br />
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305-5060<br />
Support for <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>s is provided by<br />
the Koret Foundation.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
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<strong>Family</strong> legacy<br />
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Find your way!<br />
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Featured artworks<br />
This house post is carved from cedar trees and painted to display a<br />
visual record of a family history. It may tell stories, convey<br />
relationships, or express beliefs and experiences.<br />
Carved house posts hold images of human and non-human beings.<br />
First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast have developed<br />
relationships with these beings over eons.<br />
Did you KNOW?<br />
The house posts display<br />
traditional family emblems:<br />
an eagle, a raven and a<br />
bear holding a salmon.<br />
STAIRS<br />
CONTEMPORARY<br />
ART<br />
Second Floor<br />
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION<br />
ELEVATOR<br />
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EUROPEAN<br />
& AMERICAN ART<br />
TEMPORARY<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
TEMPORARY<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
SCULPTURE<br />
TERRACE<br />
ELEVATOR<br />
NEW ACQUISITIONS<br />
First Floor<br />
EARLY EUROPEAN<br />
ART<br />
INDIGENOUS<br />
AMERICAN ART<br />
STAIRS<br />
Rehmus <strong>Family</strong><br />
Gallery<br />
INSPECTING<br />
MOURNING CABINET<br />
THE<br />
Calvin Hunt | House Posts and Lintel with<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Crests<br />
(Canadian, born in 1956), House Posts and Lintel with <strong>Family</strong> Crests, 2007.<br />
Cedar and paint. Museum purchase made possible by an unrestricted<br />
gift from an anonymous donor, 2007.6.a–c<br />
The crossbeam (lintel) features Sisiutl, the doubleheaded<br />
serpent that symbolizes supernatural power<br />
and is one of the most high-ranking crests of the<br />
Kwakwaka'wakw people, an Indigenous nation of<br />
British Columbia. The combination of crests is mixed<br />
with beings and creatures embodying everything from<br />
the creation of the world to the balance of how<br />
everything works.<br />
REHMUS FAMILY GALLERY<br />
MEIER FAMILY GALLERIA<br />
Ruth Asawa | Untitled (Wall of Masks)<br />
(American, 1926–2013), Untitled (LC.012, Wall of Masks), c.<br />
1966–2000. Ceramic, bisque-fired clay. © 2022 Ruth Asawa Lanier,<br />
Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. William Alden<br />
Campbell and Martha Campbell Art Acquisition Fund,<br />
2020.172.1–233<br />
These masks were cast from the faces of Ruth<br />
Asawa's friends and family and show us that<br />
community engagement was essential to her world<br />
and artistic output.<br />
TOOTSIE’S<br />
CAFE<br />
STAIRS<br />
ELEVATOR<br />
CONTEMPORARY ART<br />
MEIER GALLERIA<br />
AUDITORIUM<br />
Young Leland Stanford Jr. was<br />
an avid collector, and you can<br />
find many of his favorite items<br />
in the Mourning Cabinet!<br />
Mark Dion | Mourning Cabinet<br />
(American, born in 1961) The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford, 2019.<br />
Using more than 700 items from the Stanford <strong>Family</strong> Collections, artist Mark Dion’s<br />
Melancholy Museum Project explores how Leland Stanford Jr.’s death at age 15 led to the<br />
creation of a museum, university, and, by extension, Silicon Valley.<br />
What animals or characters<br />
would be on your family totem?<br />
RODIN SCULPTURE<br />
GARDEN<br />
RODIN<br />
COURTYARD<br />
RODIN<br />
STANFORD<br />
FAMILY<br />
ROOM<br />
LOCKERS<br />
SARAH LOVE<br />
MEIDEL MIEDEL GALLERY<br />
ELEVATOR<br />
OCEANIC ART<br />
ASIAN<br />
ART<br />
STAIRS<br />
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RODIN<br />
AFRICAN ART<br />
LIFT<br />
MAIN LOBBY<br />
STAIRS<br />
STAIRS<br />
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ASIAN ART<br />
ASIAN ART<br />
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SARAH LOVE MIEDEL GALLERY
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