Delve into the Legion of Honor’s building, exhibitions, and neighborhood, along with a timeline and fun facts and figures.

The Legion of Honor is open on Veterans Day, Monday, 11/11.

Born in Paris in 1900, Yves Tanguy traveled the world as a merchant marine, and began sketching café scenes after his service. In 1924, he moved into a house that would become a gathering place for ...

These focused interest groups draw individuals together around education and social opportunities, as well as specific areas of the collections. Participants enjoy exclusive events, lectures, and ...

Housed in a splendid 17th-century palace in The Hague, the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis holds one of the world’s greatest collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings. Boasting exemplary works by ...

San Francisco, April 2009—This summer the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present a retrospective of John Baldessari’s prints at the Legion of Honor. Over 100 prints are included in the exhibition ...

Abraham-Louis Breguet invented many of the standard components of today’s most prestigious watches, earning the title “The Father of Modern Horology.” The self-winding watch, the gong spring, the ...

De la Renta applied sumptuous textiles and intricate embellishments and embroideries to his fashions, often drawing inspiration from European history. He referenced both the extravagant court of ...

What do you see? What do you feel? Art can make us experience a range of emotions. What do you see? What do you feel? Art can make us experience a range of emotions. This is one way that we connect to ...

The de Young is San Francisco’s oldest art museum, treasured in a unique verdant setting. Beginning as the Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum in 1895, this museum has been a valued center of world art ...

Over the course of a 50-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) created totemic figurative sculptures in clay and bronze—powerful, elegiac forms that embody fragility and resiliency, separation ...