The long-anticipated institution, adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center, features a formidable cache of modern and contemporary art and certifies the Bay Area's growing international stature as a destination for lovers and scholars of 20th and 21st century visual arts. The Bay Area has glimpsed other outstanding private collections recently, but in level of ambition and accomplishment, only the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Donald and Doris Fisher Collection - set to debut in full in 2016 - can rival the Stanford trove. A long staircase - its gentle slope making for a comfortable ascent - leads the eye directly upward to Still's "1957-J No.