On behalf of the staff and Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we thank all the individuals and institutions who have given so generously to the Museum. This support ensures SFMOMA’s status as a preeminent cultural institution in the Bay Area and as a worldwide leader among museums of modern and contemporary art. Below is a summary of recent gifts that demonstrate exceptional commitment to the Museum’s mission. We extend our deepest thanks to our donors for their leadership.

$10 Million AT&T Gift Supports Free Tuesday Program
We are delighted to announce the receipt of a $10 million gift from AT&T for ongoing support of SFMOMA's Free Tuesday program, which provides free admission to all visitors on the first Tuesday of every month. Over the years AT&T has been a wonderful neighbor and a great supporter of the museum's efforts to reach out to and build its audiences. AT&T's generous support of the Free Tuesday program enables SFMOMA to provide residents, students, and members of the community at large with access to the museum's exemplary exhibitions and public programs, presenting them with a range of opportunities to experience, enjoy, and learn about modern and contemporary art. Through its support of this important program, AT&T helps the museum connect with the Bay Area's broad variety of constituents. We are incredibly grateful to AT&T for supporting us in this effort, and we are proud to say that first Tuesdays are always free, thanks to AT&T.


Spring Exhibitions Get a Boost from Bank of America
As the national tour sponsor of Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, Bank of America makes possible the first major exhibition in more than two decades to explore Henri Matisse's sculptural works. The exhibition examines the artist's sculpture as a vital part of his creative dialogue and highlights with unprecedented clarity his achievements as a sculptor.

In addition to sponsoring the national tour of Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, Bank of America serves as the lead corporate sponsor for SFMOMA's presentation of Picasso and American Art. We are grateful to Bank of America for its commitment to the arts and its tremendous generosity, which helped make possible these two extraordinary exhibitions.


The Helen Diller Family Foundation and
SFMOMA's Stein Exhibition
To commemorate its 75th anniversary in 2010, SFMOMA will present a major traveling exhibition that reunites the collections of the Stein family. Author Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael Stein, and Michael's wife, Sarah, were Bay Area natives whose arts patronage in the early 20th century fueled the development of modern art. They collected hundreds of works of art, including a substantial number by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Twelve of these works — paintings and drawings by Picasso and Matisse, including Matisse's masterpiece Femme au chapeau — are now in the SFMOMA collection. The goal of the exhibition is to reassemble the works originally in the Stein family collections. The presentation will include a re-creation of Leo and Gertrude's Paris salon — often called “the first museum of modern art” — as well as photographs of the Steins at home and personal correspondences.

SFMOMA is deeply grateful to the Helen Diller Family Foundation for its $100,000 grant in support of the planning and organization of this exhibition. The grant is the largest in the history of the Helen Diller Family Traveling Exhibitions Grants for Exceptional Exhibits on Jewish Themes program, administered by the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco.