The Crocker Art Museum was founded in 1885 and it is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. A greatly expanded and new museum facility opened in 2010 next to the original E. B. Crocker Art Gallery.
The museum contains American works dating from the Gold Rush, European artworks, an extensive ceramics collection, and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art.
The Californian art collection contains 150 years of painting, sculpture, and craft media covering Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art.
The collection also includes American art from the late 19th century with American impressionists and modernists well represented with artists such as Childe Hassam and Georgia O’Keeffe.
The collection of approximately 1,500 Old Master drawings include examples from the major European schools. Major drawings by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Fra Bartolommeo, 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.
Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma by Jules Tavernier, 1880s
Highlights of the Crocker Art Museum
- “Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco” by Colin Campbell Cooper
- “Palace of Fine Arts and the Lagoon” by Edwin Deakin
- “An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir” by Childe Hassam
- Oedipus and Antigone by Franz Dietrich
- Gerrit van Honthorst’s Allegory of Painting, 1648
- Arthur Frank Mathews, Vision of Saint Francis, 1911
- Alexander Roslin, Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1783
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cagnes Landscape, 1910
- Jack Frost, The Beach, Santa Monica, 1921
- Guy Rose, Monterey Cypress, c. 1918
- Colin Campbell Cooper, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1916
- Theodore Wores, Chinese Restaurant, 1884
Sunday Morning in the Mines by Charles Christian Nahl, 1872
Crocker Art Museum
- Museum: Crocker Art Museum
- Formerly: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery
- City: Sacramento
- State: California
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1885
- Type: Art Museum
- Location: 216 O St, Sacramento, CA, United States
Monterey Cypress by Guy Rose,1918
Crocker Art Museum – Map
Crocker Art Museum – 360 Virtual Tours
Crocker Art Museum – 360 Virtual Tours
Crocker Art Museum – 360 Virtual Tours
Crocker Art Museum – 360 Virtual Tours
Crocker Art Museum
A Virtual Tour of the Museums in California
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Los Angeles Museums
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Getty Museum
- California Science Center
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
- The Broad
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Petersen Automotive Museum
- Griffith Observatory
- Autry Museum of the American West
- Japanese American National Museum
- The GRAMMY Museum
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
- California African American Museum
- Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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Museums in San Diego
- USS Midway Museum
- San Diego Natural History Museum
- Museum of Us
- The San Diego Museum of Art
- San Diego Air & Space Museum
- Museum of Photographic Arts
- San Diego Model Railroad Museum
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Pasadena, California Museums
- Norton Simon Museum
- Gamble House
- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
- Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
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San Francisco Museums
- Asian Art Museum – San Francisco
- De Young Museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Legion of Honor Museum
- Walt Disney Family Museum
- Exploratorium
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Sacramento Museums
- Crocker Art Museum
- California Automobile Museum
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Photo Credit: Amadscientist / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); Jules Tavernier / Public domain; Charles Christian Nahl / Public domain; Guy Rose / Public domain
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