Photo Caption: Perham Wilhelm Nahl (American,
1869–1935), “The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules: Official Poster for the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition,” 1913–1914. Color offset lithograph
poster. 22 × 14 in. Collection of Donna Ewald Huggins
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is now
presenting Jewel City: Art from San
Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition, on view at the de
Young from October 17, 2015, through January 10, 2016. Celebrating the
centennial of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San
Francisco, this exhibition revisits a vital moment in the inauguration of the
city as a cultural center on the West Coast.
The PPIE was a world’s fair hosted by San
Francisco to commemorate the opening of the Panama Canal and also served to
promote the city’s recovery following the 1906 earthquake. At the heart of the
PPIE was one of the most ambitious art exhibitions ever presented in the United
States. It included a comprehensive survey of American painting, sculpture and
printmaking as well as European works drawn from international public and
private collections.
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