Mariano Fortuny, Gauguin, Bonnard, Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Koepping, Ludwig Hofmann, Paul Hermann, Jules Cheret, Alphons Mucha, Toulouse-Lautrec, and more
M. H. De Young Memorial Museum
Two well-paired exhibitions, an extensive feature show entitled The Art Nouveau and a concurrent secondary installation captioned A Remembrance of Mariano Fortuny, initiating the spring season at the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, together highlighted the recent wave of interest in the design styles which dominated art, artisanship, decorative crafts and fashions at the turn of the century. Broadly considered, the style trend expressed in, and inclusive of, the manifestations popularly designated by the term Art Nouveau, was, like the Rococo, the Baroque, and others of the long