Floral Design  at San Francisco Fine Arts Museums

Each year at the DeYoung Museum’s annual fundraiser over a hundred flower designers and artists, florists and garden clubs create floral sculptures and flower arrangements in homage to the fine art collection. Since 2000 my sisters, Cathy and Claudia, and I chose a painting or sculpture that moved us, and created a piece for exhibition at Bouquets to Art.

Sometimes we extended the museum piece with our embellishments, we gave context or offered the art a gift, or told how we felt bringing life and dimension in our reflections of the artists’ works . This slideshow documents the museum art, our inspiration and process, and our finished pieces. The photos are not professional, (you’ll have to excuse me) but you can see these creations expand and enliven your experience of the statues and paintings by honoring them in living art with the medium of flowers and leaves.

“The Russian Bride’s Attire” by Konstantin Makovsky The Porcelain Gallery • “The Wave” by Gustave Courbet •  “From One Night to Another” by Yves Tanguy • Bureau-Cabinet -English 1730 • “Hagar and Ishmael Taking Leave of Abraham” by Barent Fabritius • Mayan Stela with Queen Ix Mutal Ahaw • “Anti-mass 2005” by Cornelia Parker • “Faultline” by Andy Goldsworthy • “Madonna & Child” -Unknown • “Guard of the Harem” by Frank Duveneck • “Mother Earth” by Chiura Obata • “Puma On Guard” by Arthur Putnam • Mayan smiling figure holding a rattle • Gallery of Chairs