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, located in

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. Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating from the

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to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of the largest international ceramics collections in the U.S., and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art.http://www.crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, a high standard for US museums.

History

Edwin B. Crocker Edwin Bryant Crocker (26 April 1818 – 24 June 1875) was a California Supreme Court Justice and founder of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. Biography Crocker was born in Jamesville, New York to Isaac and Elizabeth Crocker. He e ...

(1818–1875), a wealthy California lawyer and judge, and his wife, Margaret Crocker (1822–1901), began to assemble a significant collection of paintings and drawings during an extended trip to Europe, from 1869 to 1871. Upon their return to Sacramento, they set about creating an art gallery in part of their grand home at the corner of Third and O streets. When the gallery was completed they opened it to the public to fund the Sacramento Library. When it opened with 694 paintings the gallery boasted the largest privately collection in the country, and held more paintings than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery became of the hub of social activity in Sacramento, hosting benefits for local organizations and welcoming prominent visitors including the Hawaiian queen,

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(1878), President

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(1879), and

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(1882).

E. B. Crocker died in 1875. In 1885, his widow loaned the gallery to the California Museum Association (CMA) for Central California's first Art and Curio Loan Exhibition. This exhibition went on for two weeks and was a complete success. When it finished, the CMA's President, David Lubin, asked that Margaret (and E.B. Crocker's three daughters, who had equal rights to the gallery through Crocker's will) donate the space to the museum association to ensure the long term preservation of the gallery. They agreed, but on the condition that they raised funds for upkeep that they were not able to reach. Instead, she gave the property to the city, which gave the association the right to occupy the property, and made Margaret Crocker the director. She presented the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery and collection to the City of Sacramento and the California Museum Association, "in trust for the public," the contents of which were valued at the time at more than $500,000. A school of art was established at the gallery in 1886. In 1978, the Crocker Art Gallery was renamed the Crocker Art Museum. In 2002, to accommodate a burgeoning collection and the needs of the growing population of Sacramento and California's Central Valley region, the museum commissioned the firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates to design a major addition. The greatly expanded Crocker Art Museum opened on October 10, 2010.

Permanent collections

Californian art and American art

The Californian art collection includes works dating from statehood to the present. The core collection of early Californian art was assembled by Judge E. B. and Margaret Crocker in the early 1870s. Prominent in their collection are works by the German-American artist

Charles Christian Nahl Carl Christian Heinrich Nahl (October 18, 1818 – March 1, 1878), later known as Charles Nahl (sometimes he is recorded as Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl or Charles C. Nahl), was a German-born painter who lived in the United States for the las ...

, who brought the large scale and copious detail of European

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to works depicting the

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. The Crockers commissioned five major works from Nahl, including ''Sunday Morning in the Mines'' (1872). The Californian collection continued to expand, and now contains 150 years of painting, sculpture, and craft media covering genres that include

Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...

Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

, and Pop Art, and features artists including early Sacramento painter

Amanda Austin Amanda Petronella Austin (1859 – 1917) was an American painter and sculptor. Biography A native of Carrollton, Missouri, Austin studied from 1877 to 1879 at the University of Missouri, becoming a favored pupil of George Caleb Bingham, to w ...

Norton Bush Norton Bush (February 22, 1834 – April 24, 1894) was an American landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of California, Panama, Nicaragua, Peru and Ecuador, with a focus on Luminism (American art style), Luminism. Early life Norton Bush ...

, William Keith, Thomas Hill,

Granville Redmond Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin. Early years Re ...

Edwin Deakin Edwin Deakin (May 21, 1838 – May 11, 1923) was a British-American artist best known for his romantic landscapes as well as his architectural studies, especially the Spanish colonial missions of California. His still lifes are considered to be ...

Guy Rose Guy Orlando Rose (3 March 1867 – 17 November 1925) was an American Impressionist painter and California resident, who received national recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life and education Guy Orlando Rose was b ...

, Gottardo Piazzoni,

Joan Brown Joan Brown (born Joan Vivien Beatty; February 13, 1938 – October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.Glu ...

, Elmer Bischoff, Roland Petersen, David Park,

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, Richard Diebenkorn,

Mel Ramos Melvin John Ramos (July 24, 1935 – October 14, 2018) was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Born in Sacramento, California, to ...

, and Wayne Thiebaud. The collection also includes American art from the late 19th century to the present.

American impressionists American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...

and modernists are a particular strength, with artists including Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maynard Dixon, Marsden Hartley,

Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...

, and

Luis Cruz Azaceta Luis Cruz Azaceta (born April 5, 1942) is a Cuban American painter. Azateca has been active in painting and drawing since the late 1970s. In usually large-format works executed with highly expressive colors, Cruz Azaceta has dealt with themes o ...

European art

Original collection

The collection of European art began with the Crocker family's trip to Europe, from 1869 to 1871. It was not a

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. The Crockers rented lodgings in Dresden for over a year, and traveled mostly in Germany. As a later director of the museum would write, "Mr. Crocker was a novice and completely susceptible to a kind of fraud in his anxiety to become the possessor of a large collection of masterpieces. He acquired in his wholesale search a collection of more than 700 paintings," most of them "not by the few famous names given him by the dealers in Munich and Dresden."Frank. W. Kent, "Introduction: The Story of the Crocker Art Gallery," ''E.B. Crocker Art Gallery Catalogue of Collections'', 1964. (Works said to be by

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...

Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

, Poussin,

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th ...

, and even

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

appear in the initial 1876 catalogue, but were reattributed in following decades.) However, among Crocker's purchases were a number of genuinely rare works by a broader array of artists than he realized, and for a brief time the Crockers possessed the largest private art collection in the United States.Richard V. West, "The Crockers and Their Collection: A Brief History," ''Crocker Art Museum Handbook of Paintings'', 1979. Oedipus and Antigone by Franz Dietrich

Along with paintings, the Crockers also acquired 1344 Old Master drawingsWilliam Breazeale, PhD, "European Art," ''The Crocker Art Museum Collection: Unveiled'', edited by Scott A. Shields, 2010. "and untold numbers of prints of rare craftsmanship." Systematic study of the origin and significance of these drawings began only in the 21st century.William Breazeale, "Old Masters in Old California: The Origins of the Drawings Collection at the Crocker Art Museum'" ''Master Drawings'', Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 205-226. Of more certain provenance were the numerous German and Central European paintings Crocker purchased, many by artists who were alive and working at the time. These 19th-century paintings would form the core of the European collection, along with a number of 17th-century Flemish and

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still lives and genre scenes, as well as French and Italian works of the 17th and 18th centuries. Artists represented in Crocker's original collection include

Maarten van Heemskerck Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Itali ...

Jan Brueghel the Elder Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborato ...

, Klaes Molenaer,

Pieter Quast Pieter Jansz. Quast (1605 or '06 – buried 29 May 1647) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, mostly producing small social genre paintings, ranging from elegant merry companies to guardroom scenes and (most numerous) groups of p ...

Antonio Joli Antonio Francesco Lodovico Joli (13 March 1700 – 29 April 1777) was an Italian painter of ''vedute'' and ''capricci''. Biography Born in Modena, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi. He then studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo Pa ...

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of ...

Paolo de Matteis Paolo de Matteis (also known as ''Paolo de' Matteis''; 9 February 1662 – 26 January 1728) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Piano Vetrale, a hamlet of Orria, in the current Province of Salerno, and died in Naples. He trained wit ...

Claude-Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet ...

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

, Andreas Achenbach, and

Karl von Piloty Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 – 21 July 1886) was a German painter, noted for his historical subjects, and recognised as the foremost representative of the realistic school in Germany. Life and work Piloty was born in Munich. His fat ...

Simon Vouet--Salome--1626-1627--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento

Later acquisitions

Recent gifts by philanthropist Alan Templeton have expanded the scope of the European collection to include works by Italian artists

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

il Morazzone Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (commonly known as il Morazzone; 1573–1626) was an Italian painter and draughtsman who was active in Milan. He is mainly known for his altarpieces, but his outstanding achievements are large decorative frescoes ...

, and Bernardo Strozzi, the Swedish portrait painter Alexander Roslin, and French artists Simon Vouet, Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Poërson,

Pierre-Alexandre Wille Pierre-Alexandre Wille (19 July 1748, in Paris - 1837, in Paris)Biographical notes
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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (called ''Lagrenée l'aîné'', Lagrenée the elder) (30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805) was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the ''Grand Prix de Rome'' for painting in 1749 and wa ...

, and

Robert Lefèvre Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (, 24 September 1755, in Bayeux – 3 October 1830, in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings. He was heavily influenced by Jacques-Louis David and his style i ...

, as well as English portraitist

Sir Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at t ...

, Austrian painter

Josef Danhauser Josef Danhauser (19 August 1805 in Laimgrube (now a part of Mariahilf or Neubau) – 4 May 1845) was an Austrian painter, one of the main artists of Biedermeier period, together with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi, among others. His wor ...

, and Dutch artist

Abraham Hondius Abraham Danielsz. Hondius (about 1631 – 17 September 1691) was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his depictions of animals. He was the son of a city stonemason, Daniel Abramsz de Hondt. Hondius was born in Rotterdam and trained under Pieter ...

. Gifts and promised gifts by the Beekhuis family of 67 19th-century Dutch landscapes are presented in the Beekhuis Foundation Gallery, including works by

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (17 August 1778 — 9 January 1851) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. Life and work He was the founding father of what would become the famous . He and his wife, Anna née Koolwijk, had four sons who all became p ...

and his descendants, and various painters of the

Hague School The Hague School is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the Realism (visual arts), realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school genera ...

. The Crocker's holdings of European art after 1900 are small, but include one of Northern California's most significant collections of works by Renoir, in part due to gifts from the artist's grandson,

Alain Renoir Alain Renoir (October 31, 1921 – December 12, 2008) was a French-American writer and literature professor, son of filmmaker Jean Renoir and actress Catherine Hessling, and grandson of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir was bo ...

, a professor at the

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. These include three small bronzes, two terra cotta relief sculptures, a Cagnes landscape painting, and works on paper, and also a ceramic vase by

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. Works after 1900 also include two portraits of Crocker family members by Giovanni Boldini.

Works on paper

The collection of approximately 1,500 Old Master drawings include examples from the major European schools. Collection strengths include European drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Major drawings by artists such as

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...

, Fra Bartolommeo,

François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

, and

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732 (birth/baptism certificate) – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ar ...

are represented. American photography and modern and contemporary California prints are also strengths of the works on paper collection. Vasudhara_at_Crocker_Art_Museum

Asian Art

The collection began with a gift of Korean ceramics by Judge E.B. and Margaret Crocker's daughter Jennie Crocker Fassett in the 1920s. The collection of Asian art is noted for its holdings of Chinese tomb furnishings and trade ceramics, and Japanese armor and tea ware. South and Southeast Asia are well represented through the William and Edith Cleary gift of more than 600 Indian and Persian miniature paintings and drawings, as well as Buddhist art from the region between Pakistan and Southeast Asia.

Ceramics

Since mid-century, the Museum has followed the development of notable Californian, American, and international ceramists such as Hamada Shoji and

Lucie Rie Dame Lucie Rie, (16 March 1902 – 1 April 1995) () was an Austrian-born British studio potter. Life Early years and education Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary, the youngest child of Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewis ...

. The history of ceramics is also explored through a collection of 18th-century Meissen porcelain tableware and in the works of ancient cultures dating to the Neolithic period.

African and Oceanic art

The collection of African and Oceanic art features a variety of objects created for daily life and traditional ceremonies. The art of the Asmat of

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is strikingly evidenced in the towering memorials to ancestors, called bis poles.

The Crocker-Kingsley Exhibitions

A biennial exhibition has been held by the museum in cooperation with the Kingsley Art Club since 1927, and juried since 1940. Artists whose works have appeared include

Robert Arneson Robert Carston Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. Early life and education Robert Carston Arn ...

, Elmer Bischoff,

David Gilhooly David Gilhooly (also known as David James Gilhooly III) (April 15, 1943 – August 21, 2013), was an American Ceramic art, ceramicist, Sculpture, sculptor, Painting, painter, Printmaking, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneer ...

Ralph Goings Ralph Goings (May 9, 1928 – September 4, 2016) was an American painter closely associated with the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands, pick-up trucks ...

, Roland Petersen,

Fritz Scholder Fritz William Scholder V (October 6, 1937 – February 10, 2005) was a Native American artist. Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luiseños, a California Mission tribe. Schold ...

, and Wayne Thiebaud. Kingsley Art Club's Crocker-Kingsley exhibition web page

Museum buildings

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Crocker family mansion and art gallery

In 1868, Judge

purchased the property and existing building, built by B. F. Hastings in 1853, on the corner of Third and O Streets. In 1871 he commissioned Seth Babson (1830–1908), a local architect, to add a new building to the home to hold his growing art collection. (Babson had previously designed the home now known as the

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in Sacramento.) Crocker asked Babson to design an elaborate gallery building in the Italianate style that would sit adjacent to the mansion and display the family's growing art collection. Old Main entrance to the crocker Art Museum

Old Main entrance to the crocker Art Museum

Babson saw the home and gallery as an integrated complex, unique in design and demanding the finest materials. The gallery building included a bowling alley, skating rink and billiards room on the ground floor; a natural history museum and a library on the first floor; a 60 ft long ballroom, and a grand staircase. Public rooms were decorated with gold-leafed and frescoed panels, separated by long mirrors. Completed in 1874, the Crocker family mansion and art gallery are considered the masterpieces of Babson's career. The family mansion went through several uses and reconstructions until a 1989 renovation restored the historic façade and created a modern gallery interior.

2010 expansion

On October 10, 2010 the Crocker Art Museum opened a new building designed by

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founded by architect Charles Gwathmey of group

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. The custom facade system was designed and supplied by Overgaard Ltd., Hong Kong. The new building, named the Teel Family Pavilion, is attached to the museum's historic structures. The expansion more than tripled the Crocker's size, from , adding four times the space for traveling exhibitions and three times the space for the Museum to showcase its permanent collection. The original museum accommodated only 4 percent of the museum's collection; 15 percent was displayed at the opening of the new section. The expanded Museum includes a new education center with four studio art classrooms, an art education resource room for teachers and docents, an expanded library, and student and community exhibition galleries, as well as an auditorium and public gathering places. File:Crocker2 35484 (cropped2).jpg, The Teel Family Pavilion, the new wing of the Crocker Art Museum.

Selected collection highlights

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, ''Vision of Saint Francis'', 1911 File:N.d. de Heem--ca1570-ca1632--Still Life with Fruit--Dutch--wikicommons.jpg, David de Heem I (c.1570-c.1632), ''Still Life with Fruit'' File:Allegory of Life attributed to Guido Cagnacci, Crocker Art Museum.jpg, Attributed to Guido Cagnacci, ''Allegory of Life'', 17th century File:1605-09 Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli--called Il Morazzone--the virgin annunciate--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg, Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (called Il Morazzone), ''The Virgin Annunciate'', 1605-1609 File:1650 Guercino--Saint Peter--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg,

, ''Saint Peter'', 1650 File:N.d. Claude Joseph Vernet--1714-1789--Cain And Abel Bringing Their Sacrifices--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg,

(1714-1789), ''Cain and Abel Bringing Their Sacrifices'' File:1746 CWE Dietrich--Holy Family in a Carpenters Shop--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, ''The Holy Family in a Carpenter's Shop'', c. 1746 File:1772 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenee--Le Lever de lAurore--Break of Dawn--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg,

, ''Break of Dawn'', 1772 File:The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster.jpg, Alexander Roslin, ''

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'', 1783 File:N.d. Pierre-Alexandre Wille--Portrait of a Young Boy--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg,

Pierre-Alexandre Wille Pierre-Alexandre Wille (19 July 1748, in Paris - 1837, in Paris)Biographical notes
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(1748-1837), ''Portrait of a Young Boy'' File:Thomas Hill - Sugar Loaf Peak, El Dorado County.jpg, Thomas Hill, ''Sugar Loaf Peak, El Dorado County'', 1865 File:Charles_Christian_Nahl_1871,_The_Rape_Of_The_Sabines_-_The_Invasion.jpg,

, ''The Rape of the Sabines—The Invasion'', 1871 File:E B Crocker by Stephen W Shaw.jpg, Stephen William Shaw, ''E.B. Crocker'', 1872 File:Thomas Hill - Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite.jpg, Thomas Hill, ''Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite'', 1872 File:The Fandango.JPG,

, ''The Fandango'', 1873 File:Albert Bierstadt - A golden summer day near Oakland (1873).jpg, Albert Bierstadt, ''A Golden Summer Day Near Oakland'', 1873 File:Jules Tavernier - Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma.jpg, Jules Tavernier, ''Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma'', early 1880s File:Chinese Restaurant by Theodore Wores, 1884.jpg,

Theodore Wores Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859 – September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke. His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco. Life Wores began his art training at age t ...

, ''Chinese Restaurant'', 1884 File:She Will Come Tomorrow.JPG,

, ''She Will Come Tomorrow'', 1888 File:"In the Artist's Studio", (1889) by Édouard-Antoine Marsal.JPG, Édouard-Antoine Marsal, ''In the Artist's Studio'', 1889 File:After California Rain by William Keith.jpg, William Keith, ''After California Rain'', 1890s File:Strawberry Creek, Berkeley.JPG,

, ''Strawberry Creek, Berkeley'', 1892 File:Edwin-Deakin-xx-Notre-Dame-Paris-xx-Private-Collection.jpg,

, ''Notre Dame, Paris'', 1893 File:An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir by Childe Hassam, 1909.jpg, Childe Hassam, ''An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir'', 1909 File:Cagnes Landscape.JPG,

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

, ''Cagnes Landscape'', 1910 File:Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon.JPG,

, ''

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and the Lagoon'', 1915 File:Cooper, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco.jpg, Colin Campbell Cooper, ''

, San Francisco'', 1916 File:Rose - monterey-cypress.jpg,

, ''Monterey Cypress'', c. 1918 File:'The Beach, Santa Monica' by John Frost, 1921.jpg, Jack Frost, ''The Beach, Santa Monica'', 1921 File:The Oriental Shop by Joseph Kleitsch, 1922.jpg,

Joseph Kleitsch Joseph Kleitsch (June 6, 1882 – November 16, 1931) was a Hungarian-American portrait and plein air painter who holds a high place in the early California School of Impressionism. Biography Born in the village of Sânmihaiu Român, old H ...

, ''The Oriental Shop'', 1922

References

External links

Crocker Art Museum Website

Crocker Art Museum collections—image galleries

@Crocker - Twitter

Crocker Art Museum Digital Collections Website (defunct)

Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects: The Crocker Art Museum Addition and Renovation

Crocker Museum: A Tale of Two DaughtersCrocker Art Museum
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History

Permanent collections

Californian art and American art

European art

Original collection

Later acquisitions

Works on paper

Asian Art

Ceramics

African and Oceanic art

The Crocker-Kingsley Exhibitions

Museum buildings

Crocker family mansion and art gallery

2010 expansion

Selected collection highlights

References

Further reading

External links