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Harry W. Anderson and his wife Mary Margaret Anderson were art collectors who donated pieces of their collection to the SFMOMA. The two met in Geneva, New York when Harry was attending summer sessions at Hobart College and got married in 1950. During college they started the Saga Food Corporation with two other classmates and after its success moved their headquarters out to the Bay Area in 1962 and settled on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California in 1965. Around this time they became interested in collecting impressionist art and eventually discovered modern and contemporary pieces. Their goal was to share their collection with the public, especially San Francisco Bay Area institutions, and so they began a donation and lending relationship with SFMOMA and Stanford University. In this interview, Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson discuss their personal backgrounds, Saga Corporation, developing an interest in art, personal relationships with Bay Area artists, galleries curators and museums, gifts to the SFMOMA, Anderson Collection interns, Neal Benezra, Henry Hopkins, and the Anderson collection itself, as well as a tour of works which include pieces from Therrien, Diebenkorn, Duchamo, Rodin, Kline, Still, and Rothko among many others.

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