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The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. [3] Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art.
Crocker was the Central Pacific's attorney during the building of the First transcontinental railroad, culminating in the ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. The stress of all of his work took a toll on Crocker. He suffered from a stroke in June 1869.
The monograph Edwin Deakin: California Painter of the Picturesque by Scott A. Shields (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate) was published in 2008 to coincide with a Deakin exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
The California Museum; Cantor Arts Center; Carmel Art Association; Carmel Arts and Crafts Club; Carnegie Art Museum; Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center; The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture; Chinese Culture Center; Crocker Art Museum
Her parents had founded the Crocker Art Museum and Fassett was a long time champion of the family's art gallery. [2] In 1911, she contributed $10,000 so the city could purchase the Crocker house, which was then used for offices and to expand the gallery space. [2]
He also published his monumental reference work "Artists in California, 1786-1940" in 1986 with biographies of over 20,000 California artists, [2] and this work along with Hughes' collection and dealership helped bring California art to the notice of the art world. The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento took an interest, and helped organize and ...
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 last half of his life.
Crocker Art Museum: Sacramento: Sacramento: Sacramento Valley: Art: Early California art, Old Master drawings, Asian art, international ceramics Dai Loy Museum: Locke: Sacramento: Sacramento Valley: History: Former Chinese gambling house [4] di Rosa: Napa: Napa: Napa Valley: Art: website, art galleries and outdoor sculpture on a nature preserve