San Francisco School of Design
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The San Francisco School of Design was formed under the influence of the San Francisco Art Association in February 1874. In 1893 the name was changed to California School of Design as the association affiliated to the University of California and inherited the Hopkins mansion on Nob Hill. Its museum functions continued under the title of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed the structure. After the earthquake it changed its name again, to the San Francisco Institute of Art.
In 1916 the association merged with the San Francisco Society of Artists and assumed directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the city's first art museum. It was located in the Palace of Fine Arts, a relic of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
The name of the association's academy was changed again in 1917, to the California School of Fine Arts. In 1926 the students left Nob Hill and moved into accommodation which the association had just built at 800 Chestnut Street. A merger took place in 1961, the association and school combining as the San Francisco Art Institute, the current name.
James Swinnerton, Arthur Frank Mathews and Percy Gray all studied at the San Francisco School of Design.
