Art in a new light at San Francisco's museums. (Fine Arts Museums)

Sunset | January 1, 1991 | Copyright

Far from a match made in heaven, the 1972 merger of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the Palace of the Legion of Honor into the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco seemed to defy all odds. The museums' respective founding patrons, newspaper publisher M.H. de Young and sugar tycoon Adolph Spreckels, were sworn enemies; in fact, Spreckels shot and wounded de Young after the Chronicle published an article maligning his family's business operations. Until recently, the merger was mostly a marriage of convenience, with each museum continuing to maintain and develop its own ...

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