The Rose in San Francisco

"The Rose" by Jay DeFeo is on view at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The painting weighs 2,300 pounds. The museum's curator has made a kind of shrine to it.

It helps to have a little history on the painting, which Bruce Conner provides in the link below:

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/311

One way to look at the painting is as a comment on and history of all the other painters and paintings on view at SFMOMA.