the following is a letter from jillian cox, a founding curator of photography and chief curator of the deyoung museum. he has asked us to share the statement. dear members, i represent the fine arts museums of san francisco comprised of the deyoung museum. the venues play host to to million visitors a year. in addition to the museum's permanent collections that will be on display during the america's cup in the 2013 s that we were planning exhibits with the american -- america's cup in mind. the first is entitled the berkeley years, exploring a body of work created in the middle years of the career of a painter who spent most of his life in the bay area. this represents work from one of america's finest artists free of the exhibit will consist of over 100 paintings and 25 to 30 works in other media from this formative time of his career. for the same time period we are developing an extensive exhibition that will focus on representations' of boating and yachting from the impressionist europe. the exhibition will consist of more than 100 paintings, pastels, drawings, watercolors such as