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May 6, 1971. 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. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of ...
painting, sculpture, conceptual art. Movement. Conceptual art, Post-minimalism. Awards. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. 1977-78. Guggenheim Fellowship. 1978-79. Stephen J. Kaltenbach (born 1940) is an American artist and author based in Sacramento, California.
Franz Albert Bischoff (January 14, 1864 – February 5, 1929) was an American artist known primarily for his China painting, floral paintings and California landscapes. He was born in Steinschönau, Austria (now known as Kamenický Šenov, Czech Republic). [1] He immigrated to the United States as a teenager where he became a naturalized citizen.
A colorful array of terracotta, porcelain and other ceramics is currently on display at the Crocker Art Museum, part of a recently-opened exhibition celebrating Black artists.
Fortunato Arriola (1827–1872) [1] was a Mexican portraitist and landscape painter, of Spanish descent. [2] He is considered one of the pioneer artists of California, [3] and his work was popular in San Francisco, where he came to live in 1857. [4] Arriola primarily painted portraits, sunsets, and luminous tropical landscapes.
David Ligare (born 1945) is a California-based representational painter of landscape, figurative and still life works. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] His paintings employ formal principles and ideas from Greco-Roman art and Classical history painting in the service of philosophical contemplations of contemporary existence. [ 4 ][ 2 ][ 5 ] He has sometimes ...
He also published his monumental reference work "Artists in California, 1786-1940" in 1986 with biographies of over 20,000 California artists, 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 ...
Arthur Frank Mathews. Arthur F. Mathews (October 1, 1860 – February 19, 1945) was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Trained as an architect and artist, he and his wife Lucia Kleinhans Mathews had a significant effect on the evolution of Californian art in the late 19th and early ...