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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CROCKM_180713_001.JPG: Mark Dean Veca Passaggio di Pop 2018
2. CROCKM_180713_023.JPG: Dale Chihuly Macchia Seaform Group 1984
3. CROCKM_180713_029.JPG: Debora Moore Pink Lady Slipper-Branch 2007
4. CROCKM_180713_037.JPG: Otis Oldfield Self-Portrait -- Shorn (Self-Portrait in the Artist's Telegraph Hill Studio) 1929
5. CROCKM_180713_042.JPG: Otis Oldfield White Dress (White Nightie) 1936
6. CROCKM_180713_046.JPG: Robert Henri The Romany Girl n.d.
7. CROCKM_180713_050.JPG: Jessie Arms Botke Demoiselle Cranes circa 1930
8. CROCKM_180713_054.JPG: John Langley Howard The Anchor Block 1938
9. CROCKM_180713_062.JPG: Ruth Miller Kempster Working Stiff circa 1934
10. CROCKM_180713_067.JPG: Brents Carlton Embracing Couple circa 1944-45
11. CROCKM_180713_073.JPG: Clarence K. Hinkle Palm Canyon n.d.
12. CROCKM_180713_078.JPG: Moses Soyer Ballerina n.d.
13. CROCKM_180713_082.JPG: Conrad Buff Canyon de Chelly circa 1940
14. CROCKM_180713_086.JPG: Charles Reiffel Spring circa 1941
15. CROCKM_180713_091.JPG: Paul Sample Port of Stockton circa 1936-37
16. CROCKM_180713_096.JPG: Brents Carlton Mother and Child 1931
17. CROCKM_180713_102.JPG: Agnes Pelton Winter 1933
18. CROCKM_180713_107.JPG: Georgia O'Keeffe It Was a Man and a Pot 1942
19. CROCKM_180713_111.JPG: John Emmett Gerrity Untitled (Still Life) circa 1955
20. CROCKM_180713_115.JPG: Raymond Jonson Oil #2, 1942 1942
21. CROCKM_180713_120.JPG: Dorr Hodgson Bothwell Mental Terrain 1946
22. CROCKM_180713_128.JPG: Jose Maria de Servin Pareja n.d.
23. CROCKM_180713_132.JPG: Romare Bearden Mother and Child 1968
24. CROCKM_180713_137.JPG: Rufino Tamayo Laughing Woman 1950
25. CROCKM_180713_141.JPG: Roberto Montenegro New Moon n.d.
26. CROCKM_180713_146.JPG: Perham Wilhelm Nahl The Three Disgraces (Folly, Ignorance, and Superstition) 1933
27. CROCKM_180713_159.JPG: Irving Norman Celebration 1953
28. CROCKM_180713_170.JPG: Irving Norman My World and Yours (And the Gods Created the World in Their Own Image) 1954
29. CROCKM_180713_189.JPG: Jess Feignting Spell 1954
30. CROCKM_180713_199.JPG: Peter Voulkos Three Stacked Forms 1977
31. CROCKM_180713_203.JPG: Robert Cremean Disrobing Figure 1958
32. CROCKM_180713_207.JPG: Joan Brown Flora 1961
33. CROCKM_180713_214.JPG: Bay Area Figurative Painting
34. CROCKM_180713_217.JPG: Barbara Spring A La Carte 1961
35. CROCKM_180713_221.JPG: Mel Ramos The Atom 1962
36. CROCKM_180713_228.JPG: Wayne Thiebaud Cake Slices n.d.
37. CROCKM_180713_232.JPG: Wayne Thiebaud The Speaker 2003-2008
38. CROCKM_180713_235.JPG: Wayne Thiebaud Boston Cremes 1962
39. CROCKM_180713_242.JPG: Judy Chicago Test Plate for Hatshepsut, Great Pharaoh of Egypt in 18th Dynasty 1977-78
40. CROCKM_180713_247.JPG: Wayne Thiebaud Street and Shadow 1982-83
41. CROCKM_180713_250.JPG: Robert Arneson Overcooked 1973
42. CROCKM_180713_257.JPG: Don Barchardy Christopher Isherwood 1983 V 1983
43. CROCKM_180713_264.JPG: Fred Dalkey Self Portrait with Hands on Hips 2001
44. CROCKM_180713_268.JPG: Manuel Neri Catun No. 2 1986
45. CROCKM_180713_278.JPG: Harry Fonseca Mimi and Rodolfo, Santa Fe Opera Style 1993
46. CROCKM_180713_288.JPG: Preston Singletary Frog Helper 2015
47. CROCKM_180713_292.JPG: Allan Houser Force 1978-1990
48. CROCKM_180713_298.JPG: Judith Lowry Welgatim's Song 2001
49. CROCKM_180713_306.JPG: Rick Bartow Coyote and Crow Story 2014
50. CROCKM_180713_311.JPG: Mark Abildgaard Uroboros Totem 2013
51. CROCKM_180713_315.JPG: Andreas Nottebohm KN-1725 2005
52. CROCKM_180713_327.JPG: Alan Rath Neo Watcher V 2001
53. CROCKM_180713_333.JPG: David Huffman Belly Button Window 2006
54. CROCKM_180713_341.JPG: Ralph Goings Sacramento Airport 1970
55. CROCKM_180713_345.JPG: Gale Hart Hers 2016
56. CROCKM_180713_350.JPG: Terry Thompson Sun Drop Froot Loops 2012
57. CROCKM_180713_359.JPG: Peter Combe Dick 2016
58. CROCKM_180713_363.JPG: Daniel Douke (back of) Widescreen 2009
59. CROCKM_180713_366.JPG: Daniel Douke Widescreen 2009
60. CROCKM_180713_374.JPG: Michael Tompkins East Bay 1989
61. CROCKM_180713_378.JPG: Tom Prythero Tail of the Pup 1992
62. CROCKM_180713_384.JPG: Emma Luna The Laundry in Pastel Colors 2000
63. CROCKM_180713_388.JPG: Luke Butler An L Butler Picture VI 2017
64. CROCKM_180713_395.JPG: Photorealism
65. CROCKM_180713_398.JPG: Emma Luna The Laundry in Pastel Colors 2000
66. CROCKM_180713_404.JPG: Gottfried Helnwein Untitled (The Disasters of War 10) 2007
67. CROCKM_180713_408.JPG: Oben Abright Michael #4 2016
68. CROCKM_180713_418.JPG: F. Scott Hess All the Goods of the World 2013
69. CROCKM_180713_422.JPG: Tip Toland Wall Flower 2011
70. CROCKM_180713_427.JPG: Stephen J. Kaltenbach Portrait of My Father 1972-79
71. CROCKM_180713_436.JPG: Gerald Heffernon Giant California Robin 2008
72. CROCKM_180713_442.JPG: Dale Chihuly March Green Persian Set with Golden Yellow Lip Wrap 1997
73. CROCKM_180713_450.JPG: Rick Siggins Jujuigi 2007
74. CROCKM_180713_454.JPG: Mineo Mizuno Teardrop, Multi-Color on White #3 2010
75. CROCKM_180713_459.JPG: Marvin Lipofsky Chico Spring Series 1988 #10 1988
76. CROCKM_180713_463.JPG: Al Held Pisa, I 1983
77. CROCKM_180713_471.JPG: Robert Bechtle French Doors II 1966
78. CROCKM_180713_478.JPG: Jerald Silva K Street Mall and Crest Theatre circa 2012
79. CROCKM_180713_488.JPG: Arthur Gonzalez The Sinning Wheel 1995
80. CROCKM_180713_496.JPG: Alexander Stirling Calder Star Maiden 1914
81. CROCKM_180713_502.JPG: John Hubbard Rich Day Dreams 1918
82. CROCKM_180713_506.JPG: Franz Bischoff Red and White Roses, 1908 Water Lily Vase, 1901 Iris Vase, 1903
83. CROCKM_180713_510.JPG: Haig Patigian Isis 1907
84. CROCKM_180713_515.JPG: Joseph Kleitsch The Oriental Shop 1922
85. CROCKM_180713_522.JPG: Armin Hansen Drifting Dog late 1920s
86. CROCKM_180713_527.JPG: John Frost The Beach, Santa Monica 1921
87. CROCKM_180713_539.JPG: Richard Edward Miller Cotton Silk Tree, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands circa 1926
88. CROCKM_180713_546.JPG: M. Evelyn McCormick Cactus Garden, Del Monte circa 1893
89. CROCKM_180713_559.JPG: Setting up a new exhibit
90. CROCKM_180713_563.JPG: Theodore Earl Butler Landscape (Monet's Water Garden at Giverny) n.d.
91. CROCKM_180713_567.JPG: Arthur Mathews Vision of Saint Francis 1911
92. CROCKM_180713_570.JPG: Arthur Mathews Mirror n.d.
93. CROCKM_180713_575.JPG: Elizabeth Eaton Burton Lily Lamp circa 1905-10
94. CROCKM_180713_587.JPG: Tonalism
95. CROCKM_180713_591.JPG: Arthur Putnam Twilight Venus Holding Staff 1909
96. CROCKM_180713_596.JPG: Guy Rose Jade Beads circa 1907-1912
97. CROCKM_180713_601.JPG: Mary Curtis Richardson Portrait of Mary Blanche Hubbard 1889
98. CROCKM_180713_604.JPG: Edmund Charles Tarbell In the Station Waiting Room, Boston circa 1915
99. CROCKM_180713_610.JPG: Theodore Wores The Iris Flowers of Hori Kiri, Tokio circa 1893
100. CROCKM_180713_616.JPG: Childe Hassam An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir 1909
101. CROCKM_180713_629.JPG: Frederick Carl Frieseke Woman in Her Boudoir circa 1924
102. CROCKM_180713_633.JPG: Mabel Alvarez Carmen 1922
103. CROCKM_180713_641.JPG: The Gilded Age
104. CROCKM_180713_642.JPG: Edwin Deakin Grapes and Architecture 1908
105. CROCKM_180713_655.JPG: Guy Rose Food for the Laborers 1890
106. CROCKM_180713_661.JPG: Edwin Deakin Le Coin de Cuisine (Kitchen Corner) 1883
107. CROCKM_180713_667.JPG: Artistic Training in Europe
108. CROCKM_180713_670.JPG: Setting up a new exhibit
109. CROCKM_180713_673.JPG: Elihu Vedder Muse of Tragedy 1894
110. CROCKM_180713_680.JPG: George de Forest Brush Portrait of Elizabeth Sinton Walker (Mrs. Harry Walker) 1881
111. CROCKM_180713_686.JPG: Edwin Howland Blashfield Music 1890s
112. CROCKM_180713_692.JPG: Edward Riche Butler The Girl with the Millais Cape n.d.
113. CROCKM_180713_696.JPG: Guy Rose Chrysanthemums 1887
114. CROCKM_180713_702.JPG: Louis Comfort Tiffany
115. CROCKM_180713_705.JPG: Guy Rose In the Studio circa 1910
116. CROCKM_180713_714.JPG: Dale Chihuly Persian Wall 2006
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Wikipedia Description: Crocker Art Museum
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The Crocker Art Museum, formerly the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, is one of the leading arts institutions in California, and the longest continuously-operating art museum in the West. Located in Sacramento, California, the Museum hosts one of the state’s premier collections of Californian art. The collection contains works dating from the Gold Rush to the present day, a world-renowned collection of master drawings, European paintings, one of the largest and most comprehensive international ceramics collections in the U.S. and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art. In addition to its collections, the Crocker offers a variety of public programs.

History

In 1869, Edwin B. Crocker, a banker and landowner of great wealth, and Margaret Crocker began to assemble a significant collection of paintings and drawings during an extended trip to Europe just a year after their purchase of land on the corner of Third and O Street in the city of Sacramento. As a prominent California family, the Crockers supported many social and civic causes. Judge Crocker (1818–1875) served on the State Supreme Court. His brother was Charles Crocker, one of the “Big Four” railroad barons. In 1885, his widow, Margaret (1822–1901), fulfilled their shared vision of creating a public art museum when 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 $500,000.000.

While the Crocker Art Museum had undertaken a series of renovations and additions since it first opened as a public museum 125 years ago, the facility could not keep pace with the Museum’s burgeoning collection and the growing population of Sacramento and California's Central Valley Region. In 2000, the Crocker began a master planning process with Gwathmey Siegel & Associates and in 2002 commissioned the firm to design a major expansion of the Museum. The expanded Crocker Art Museum opened on October 10, 2010.

Permanent Collections

Californian Art & American Art

The Californian art collection includes works dating from statehood to the present day. The core collection of early Californian art was assembled by Judge E. B. and Margaret Crocker in the early 1870s and has continued to grow over the years. The Crocker now boasts 150 years of painting, sculpture, and craft media covering genres that include Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, and features artists such as Thomas Hill, Guy Rose, Joan Brown, and Wayne Thiebaud. The collection also includes American art from the late-19th century to the present. American Impressionists and Modernists are a particular strength, with iconic works by Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Other Twentieth Century painters represented include; Granville Redmond, Edwin Deakin, Maynard Dixon, Richard Diebenkorn, Mel Ramos, Jim Piskoti ("Justice"), Jess, and Luis Azaceta.

Works On Paper

The collection of approximately 1,500 master drawings is one of the finest early collections in the United States, with superb examples from the major European schools. Collection strengths include European drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Major drawings by artists such as Albrecht D�rer, Fra Bartolommeo, Fran�ois Boucher, and Jean-Honor� Fragonard are represented here. American photography and modern and contemporary California prints are also strengths of the works on paper collection.

European Art

The collection of European art was shaped by the Crocker family’s purchase of paintings during their grand tour of Europe between 1869 and 1871. This core collection focuses on Central European painting of the 19th century, Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th-century painting, and Italian-Baroque painting. Painters represented at this art museum include; Antonio Joli, Guido Cagnacci, Gerrit van Honthorst, Nicolaes Maes, Nicolaes Molenaer, Pieter Quast ("Quarreling Women"), Bernhard Reinhold ("Young Mason Eating Lunch"), Andreas Achenbach, Karl von Piloty, Paul Blondeau ("Dordrecht"), Arnold Marc Gorter ("Canal Landscape With Trees"), Andreas Schelfhout, and Charles Christian Nahl.

International Ceramics

Since midcentury, the Museum has followed the development of notable Californian, American, and international ceramists such as Hamada Shoji and Lucie Rie. Major gifts to the museum celebrate craftsmanship, expand upon clay’s traditions, and test its boundaries as a medium. The history of ceramics is also explored in a superb collection of 18th–century Meissen porcelain tableware and in the works of ancient cultures dating to the Neolithic period.

Asian Art

The collection of Asian art is especially noted for its holdings of Chinese tomb furnishings and trade ceramics, and Japanese armor and tea ware. The collection is also notable for Korean ceramics which began with a gift by Judge E.B. and Margaret Crocker’s daughter Jennie Crocker Fassett in the 1920s. 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.

African & 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 New Guinea is strikingly evidenced in the towering memorials to ancestors, called bis poles.

The Crocker-Kingsley

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, David Gilhooly, Ralph Goings, Roland Petersen, Mel Ramos, Fritz Scholder, and Wayne Thiebaud.

Main Buildings

Architecture

Crocker Art Museum; historic Art Gallery building

In 1868, Judge Edwin B. Crocker purchased the property and existing buildings on the corner of Third and O Streets. He then commissioned Seth Babson (1830–1908), a talented local architect, to redesign and renovate the home into a grander, Italianate mansion. In addition, Crocker asked Babson to design an elaborate gallery building 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; and gallery space on the second floor. Completed in 1872, 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 fa�ade and created a modern gallery interior.

2010 expansion

On October 10, 2010 the Crocker Art Museum opened a new 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m2) building designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects founded by recognized architect Charles Gwathmey of group The New York Five. The roughly 37,600-square-foot (3,490 m2) 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 to expand the Crocker Art Museum's original and present traveling exhibitions as well as educational programs.

The controversial expansion has more than tripled the Crocker’s size to 145,000 square feet (13,500 m2) — adding four times the space for traveling exhibitions and three times the space for the Museum to showcase its permanent collection. The original museum only accommodated 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. These new facilities allow the Crocker to present expanded programming, enabling the Museum to serve the community as never before.
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Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
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