Jun Kaneko, born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, began his formal studies in art in the United States at the Chouinard Art Institute and continued at Berkeley and Claremont Graduate School. These four sculptures represent a larger body of work called the Mission Clay Project, which created a total of forty-one new sculptures. This project took three years to complete.

This exhibition, held in conjunction with Picasso and the Avant Garde in Paris, explores American Modernism through artists such as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe. A selection of American photographer Paul Strand's portraits of Picasso and Georges Braque are also on view.

John G. Johnson acquired many seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings, including three by Willem Kalf; an early kitchen scene and two of the later pronk, or sumptuous still lifes, for which Kalf is best known.

Days and Giorni, Nauman’s compelling sound installations recorded in two languages, English and Italian, have traveled from the 53rd International Art Exhibition (La Biennale de Veneziato) to Philadelphia.