Anne Bremer Memorial Library


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The Anne Bremer Memorial Library, established with a generous donation from philanthropist Albert Bender in 1935, is a unique and valuable resource for students. Located on the second floor of the Art Institute’s original 1926 building, the library offers students a quiet setting for research and study. The reading room’s high arched windows overlook San Francisco Bay, with views of the Alcatraz, Angel Island, and beyond.

The library’s collection emphasizes modern and contemporary art, art history, theory, and criticism. It contains 26,000 volumes, including an outstanding collection of exhibition catalogues, and subscriptions to more than 200 periodicals. The library staff works with students on an individual basis, showing them how to take advantage of the library’s specialized resources. The library sponsors an annual artist’s book contest for students and has changing exhibitions of books, posters, photographs, and other ephemera.

The general collection provides support material for curricula, recreational reading, and visual documentation unavailable elsewhere. Students may check out books from the general collection for two weeks.

The library also houses the San Francisco Art Institute Archives which contain primary source material, manuscripts, and printed documentation of Northern California art from 1871 to the present. The archives are available to qualified researchers on a limited basis.