Robert Mondavi Winery (No. 3)
The winery-as-gallery concept is not new. In fact, it dates back to 1970, when Margrit Biever (who would later go on to become Margrit Mondavi) was a young employee at Robert Mondavi Winery. She looked around the tasting space and said, “Mr. Mondavi, you have all these empty walls. Why don’t we hang something on these walls?”
And so they did, with special exhibits devoted to artists like Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud and Nathan Oliveira on view in the winery’s Vineyard Room. Every quarter there is a new show — currently, local artist Layla Fanucci’s cityscape paintings are on display.
Robert Mondavi Winery also carries a permanent art collection that is scattered throughout the estate. It features several bronze and marble sculptures by Beniamino Bufano, a seven-foot-tall bust of Robert Mondavi by Len Urso, Gordon Huether’s metal art pieces and The Welcoming Woman by John Henry Waddell.
To see many of these sculptures, a tour of the property is required.
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