Take an exhibition tour with the director!
Throughout this, our 80th Anniversary year, we continue a year-long focus on our collection's strengths
and the individuals who have helped create them. Projects like the critically acclaimed
Goya's Portraits underscore the excellence
of individual works that belong to SDMA, while providing a broader context for one of the most
influential artists of the modern era. Similarly, the exhibition of our collection of 55 wood
engravings by Winslow Homeropening June 3, 2006helps us to better understand an important facet
of that legendary painter's career.
Other ongoing exhibitions, including
American Ceramics 1884-1972,
The Eye of the Collector,
Wit and Wisdom, and
Tracking and Tracing pay
tribute to the generous contributions of many donors who helped expand our holdings in key
areas of the collection. In addition, the efforts of our education department help us to share
this knowledge with the broadest possible public in our region through Family Festivals, docent
tours, art classes, and a bilingual approach to everything that we do.
I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the trustees of the San Diego Museum of Art. The
dedication of board members, both past and present, to the fundamental mission of a great museum is what has
enabled generations of San Diegans to enjoy this resource.
As always, I hope that you will visit us often and that all members will feel free to share with me their
own visions for the future of this great Museum.
Derrick R. Cartwright
The Maruja Baldwin Director