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The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the
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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
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, a high standard for US museums.


History

Edwin B. Crocker (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, Liliʻuokalani (1878), President Ulysses S. Grant (1879), and Oscar Wilde (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, who brought the large scale and copious detail of European history painting to works depicting the California Gold Rush. 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, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, and features artists including early Sacramento painter Amanda Austin,
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. Early life Norton Bush was born on February 22, 1834 ...
, William Keith, Thomas Hill, Granville Redmond, Edwin Deakin, Guy Rose,
Gottardo Piazzoni Gottardo Fidele Piazzoni (1872–1945) was a Swiss-born American landscape painter, muralist and sculptor of Italian heritage, a key member of the school of Northern California artists in the early 1900s. Life and career Born in Intragna, Switz ...
, Joan Brown,
Elmer Bischoff Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post- World War II generation of artists who started as abstract p ...
,
Roland Petersen Roland Conrad Petersen (born 1926) is a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor. His career spans over 50 years, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and is perhaps best-known for his "Picnic series" (a yearly event at UC Davi ...
, David Park, Jess,
Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he bega ...
,
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 Morton Wayne Thiebaud ( ; November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his la ...
. The collection also includes American art from the late 19th century to the present. American impressionists and modernists are a particular strength, with artists including
Childe Hassam Frederick Childe Hassam (; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressioni ...
,
Robert Henri Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against A ...
,
Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Ame ...
,
Maynard Dixon Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was an American artist. He was known for his paintings, and his body of work focused on the American West. Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art o ...
,
Marsden Hartley Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin. Early life and education Hartley was born ...
, Hans Hofmann, and Luis Cruz Azaceta.


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
Grand Tour The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tut ...
. 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, Rubens,
Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for ...
, Salvator Rosa, 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. 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 Dutch Golden Age 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, Jan Brueghel the Elder,
Klaes Molenaer Nicolaes (Klaes) Molenaer (1626-1629 in Haarlem – 1676 in Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and draughtsman. Biography Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem in the family of tailor Jan Mienssen Molenaer and his second wife Gri ...
, Pieter Quast, Antonio Joli, Francesco Solimena, Paolo de Matteis, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Jacques-Louis David,
Andreas Achenbach Andreas Achenbach (29 September 1815, Kassel – 1 April 1910, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School. His brother, Oswald, was also a ...
, and Karl von Piloty.


Later acquisitions

Recent gifts by philanthropist Alan Templeton have expanded the scope of the European collection to include works by Italian artists Guercino, il Morazzone, and
Bernardo Strozzi Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included history, allegorical, genre and portrait paintin ...
, the Swedish portrait painter
Alexander Roslin Alexander Roslin (spelled Alexandre in French, ; 15 July 17185 July 1793) was a Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, Warsaw and St. Petersburg, primarily for members of aristocratic families. He combined insigh ...
, and French artists
Simon Vouet Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and ...
,
Philippe de Champaigne Philippe de Champaigne (; 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school. He was a founding member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art ...
, Charles Poërson, Pierre-Alexandre Wille, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and Robert Lefèvre, as well as English portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence, Austrian painter Josef Danhauser, and Dutch artist Abraham Hondius. 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 and his descendants, and various painters of the Hague School. 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 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 "Re ...
, in part due to gifts from the artist's grandson, Alain Renoir, 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 Jean Renoir. Works after 1900 also include two portraits of Crocker family members by
Giovanni Boldini Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in ''Time'' magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" becaus ...
.


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,
Fra Bartolommeo Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo (, , ; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di S. Marco, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects ...
, François Boucher, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard are represented. American photography and modern and contemporary California prints are also strengths of the works on paper collection.


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 A hamada ( ar, حمادة, ) is a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard rocky plateaus, where most of the sand has been removed by deflation. The majority of the Sahara is in fact hamada. Other examples are Negev des ...
and Lucie Rie. The history of ceramics is also explored through a collection of 18th-century
Meissen porcelain Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's work an ...
tableware and in the works of ancient cultures dating to the
Neolithic period The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...
.


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,
Elmer Bischoff Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post- World War II generation of artists who started as abstract p ...
, David Gilhooly, Ralph Goings,
Roland Petersen Roland Conrad Petersen (born 1926) is a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor. His career spans over 50 years, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and is perhaps best-known for his "Picnic series" (a yearly event at UC Davi ...
,
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 ...
, Fritz Scholder, and
Wayne Thiebaud Morton Wayne Thiebaud ( ; November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his la ...
. Kingsley Art Club's Crocker-Kingsley exhibition web page


Museum buildings

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Crocker family mansion and art gallery

In 1868, Judge Edwin B. Crocker 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 Leland Stanford Mansion 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. 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
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects LLC (formerly Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects) is a New York City-based architectural firm founded in 1967 by architects Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel. The firm's work ranges from art ...
founded by architect
Charles Gwathmey Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – August 3, 2009) was an American architect. He was a principal at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, as well as one of the five architects identified as The New York Five in 1969. Gwathmey was perhaps be ...
of group The New York Five. 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

File:Vision of Saint Francis by Arthur Frank Mathews, 1911.jpg, Arthur Frank Mathews, ''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 Guido Cagnacci (13 January 1601 – 1663) was an Italian painter originally from Santarcangelo di Romagna. Associated most readily with the Baroque period, his mature works are characterized by their use of chiaroscuro and their sensual subje ...
, ''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 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 ...
(called Il Morazzone), ''The Virgin Annunciate'', 1605-1609 File:1650 Guercino--Saint Peter--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg, Guercino, ''Saint Peter'', 1650 File:N.d. Claude Joseph Vernet--1714-1789--Cain And Abel Bringing Their Sacrifices--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg, Claude-Joseph Vernet (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 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (30 October 1712 – 23 April 1774) was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own. Biography He was born at ...
, ''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, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, ''Break of Dawn'', 1772 File:The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster.jpg,
Alexander Roslin Alexander Roslin (spelled Alexandre in French, ; 15 July 17185 July 1793) was a Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, Warsaw and St. Petersburg, primarily for members of aristocratic families. He combined insigh ...
, '' Anne Vallayer-Coster'', 1783 File:N.d. Pierre-Alexandre Wille--Portrait of a Young Boy--Crocker Art Museum--Sacramento.jpg, Pierre-Alexandre Wille (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, Charles Christian Nahl, ''The Rape of the Sabines—The Invasion'', 1871 File:E B Crocker by Stephen W Shaw.jpg,
Stephen William Shaw Stephen William Shaw (December 15, 1817 – February 12, 1900) was a California '49er and portrait painter who helped discover and name Humboldt Bay and introduced viticulture to Sonoma County by 1864. Early life Stephen W. Shaw was born Dece ...
, ''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, Charles Christian Nahl, ''The Fandango'', 1873 File:Albert Bierstadt - A golden summer day near Oakland (1873).jpg,
Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not ...
, ''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, ''Chinese Restaurant'', 1884 File:She Will Come Tomorrow.JPG, Edwin Deakin, ''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, Edwin Deakin, ''Strawberry Creek, Berkeley'', 1892 File:Edwin-Deakin-xx-Notre-Dame-Paris-xx-Private-Collection.jpg, Edwin Deakin, ''Notre Dame, Paris'', 1893 File:An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir by Childe Hassam, 1909.jpg,
Childe Hassam Frederick Childe Hassam (; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressioni ...
, ''An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir'', 1909 File:Cagnes Landscape.JPG, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''Cagnes Landscape'', 1910 File:Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon.JPG, Edwin Deakin, '' Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon'', 1915 File:Cooper, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco.jpg,
Colin Campbell Cooper Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an American Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, ...
, '' Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco'', 1916 File:Rose - monterey-cypress.jpg, Guy Rose, ''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, ''The Oriental Shop'', 1922


References


Further reading

* William Breazeale, Cara Denison, Stacey Sell, and Freyda Spira, ''A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum''. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. * William Breazeale, Susan Anderson, Christine Giviskos, and Christiane Andersson, ''The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body''. Lund Humphries, 2008. * Diana L. Daniels, Martha Drexler Lynn, ''The Vase and Beyond: The Sidney Swidler Collection of the Contemporary Vessel''. Crocker Art Museum, 2010. * Janice T. Driesbach, Catherine Church Holland and Harvey Jones, ''Art of the
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''.
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, 1998. * Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ''Central European Drawings in the Collection of the Crocker Art Museum''. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004. * K.D. Kurutz, "The Crocker Art Museum," ''California History'', Vol. 71, No. 1 (Spring, 1992). * Susan Landauer, ''California Impressionists''.
Georgia Museum of Art The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum in Athens, Georgia, United States, associated with the University of Georgia (UGA). The museum is both an academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent co ...
, 1996. * Pierre Rosenberg, "Twenty French Drawings in Sacramento," ''Master Drawings'', Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1970), pp. 31–39+83-101. * Scott A. Shields, Lial A. Jones, William Breazeale, Diana Daniels, Nancy Tingley, and Erin Aitali, ''The Crocker Art Museum Collection Unveiled''. Crocker Art Museum, 2010. * Kevin Taylor, "The Crocker Museum: A Tale of Two Daughters," www.aimeecrocker.com, June 7, 2020.


External links


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