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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 ...
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 in Sacramento, California. The stress of all of his work took a toll on Crocker. He suffered from a stroke in June 1869. He retired from his other pursuits and took up less stressful hobbies. With a net worth of a million dollars from railroad investments, Crocker and his family traveled throughout Europe and collected art. [14]
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]
In 2014, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California held an exhibition of more than 100 works by Tavernier, the first career retrospective of his work, accompanied by a catalog entitled Jules Tavernier: Artist & Adventurer. After the Crocker, the exhibition moved to the Monterey Museum of Art. [4] [5]
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 ...
Vases by Franz Bischoff dated 1901, 1903 and 1908, on display at the Crocker Art Museum. After arriving in the United States, Bischoff worked in New York, Fostoria, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Dearborn, Michigan.
Aimée Isabella Crocker (December 5, 1864 – February 7, 1941) was an American mystic, Bohemian, author, and member of the wealthy Crocker family.She was known for her cultural exploration of the Far East, for her extravagant parties in San Francisco, New York and Paris, and her collections of husbands and lovers, adopted children, Buddhas, pearls, tattoos, and snakes.