点评:This museum is probably intended mostly for art history students at Stanford. Or locals looking for something free to do. Once you get past the grand and impressive lobby, art on the walls seems mostly to be there to illuminate some period in art history rather than for its greatness or importance and indeed, most of it is not very great. Some of it is good, mostly the Dutch paintings (Bosschaert, van der Heyden). But somehow the museum is mostly underwhelming. The Rodins, which the museum makes a big fuss over, are mostly posthumous casts and many of the paintings and sculptures are inferior to what is in the collections up Highway 101 in San Francisco’s museums; you’re better off there if you’re looking for a good museum to visit in the Bay Area. I visited because this museum appeared on a list of best university art museums in America in the Washington Post; I can only assume that the author either hasn’t actually visited this museum or confused it with the Anderson collection next door.
翻译:这个博物馆可能主要面向斯坦福大学艺术史专业的学生。或者是想找点免费活动的地方的当地人。穿过宏伟壮观的大厅后,墙上的艺术品似乎主要是为了阐明艺术史上的某个时期,而不是为了展示它的伟大或重要性,事实上,大多数艺术品都不是很好。有些还不错,主要是荷兰绘画(Bosschaert、van der Heyden)。但不知何故,这个博物馆大部分都让人失望。博物馆大肆宣传的罗丹作品大多是死后铸造的,许多绘画和雕塑都不如 101 号公路上旧金山博物馆的藏品;如果你想在湾区寻找一个值得参观的好博物馆,你最好去那里。我参观这个博物馆是因为《华盛顿邮报》将这个博物馆列为美国最佳大学艺术博物馆;我只能假设作者要么没有真正参观过这个博物馆,要么把它与隔壁的安德森收藏混淆了。