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Jan 3, 2012 · Art in America. John Buchanan, Controversial Museum Director, Has Died. By Stephanie Cash. January 3, 2012 11:28am. John Buchanan, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,...
- Stephanie Cash
San Francisco, CA, December 2011—The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announces with great sadness the death of John Edward Buchanan, Jr., Director of Museums, on Friday, December 30, 2011. Mr. Buchanan passed away at the age of 58 after a battle with cancer.
- Countering Criticism
- Expansion in Portland
- Memorial to Be Announced
Such projects prompted Mr. Buchanan's critics to accuse him of unraveling the Fine Arts Museums' prestige, which had rested more on projects and scholarship originated by its curators than on spectacles imported from elsewhere. "I'm a populist, and I'm not afraid to say it," he told The Chroniclesoon after accepting the San Francisco job. Many crit...
In Portland, Mr. Buchanan oversaw extensive museum reconstruction and expansion, a spate of acquisitions and a fivefold increase in the institution's endowment. His wife, Lucy, whom he met on a blind date while in graduate school, served as a development officer at the Portland Museum. The two were also busy as a team socially in San Francisco as t...
Mr. Buchanan is survived by his wife, Lucy Matthews Buchananof San Francisco, and an uncle, Louis Buchanan, and aunt, Edith Buchanan McCoy, both of Nashville. Private funeral services will take place in Nashville. A memorial event in San Francisco will be announced later. The family requests that donations in Mr. Buchanan's memory be made to the Di...
- Art Critic
Dec 31, 2011 · SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) -- John Buchanan, whose term as director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco saw a rise in both membership and attendance, has died. He was 58. A news...
Jan 31, 2006 · PROFILE: John Buchanan / New S.F. museum chief has a passion for art. Executive Director of Portland Art Museum sits in front of David Salle's 'Pastel" in a new gallery devoted to 1980s neo ...
May 20, 2014 · News & Notes. John Buchanan was just 58 years old when he died, from cancer, on December 30, 2011. He had been director of the San Francisco Museums of Fine Art for some time, shaking up the Bay Area art scene in ways familiar to Portlanders, brashly organizing blockbuster shows and bringing hundreds of thousands of people inside the doors of ...
A memorial service for John Edward Buchanan, Jr., Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will take place on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 1:00 PM at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco ...
