The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, USA has operated continuously longer than any other art museum west of the Mississippi River. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually Visual art. The Mississippi River is the second longest River in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to Founded in 1885, it boasts an excellent collection of early California art including important works of Albert Bierstadt, Xavier Martinez, William Keith, and Thomas Hill; in addition there is an old master drawings collection containing pieces of Rembrandt, Durer, and Francois Boucher. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Albert Bierstadt ( January 8 1830 - February 18 1902) was a German - American painter best known for his large Xavier Timoteo Martínez ( February 7, 1869 &ndash January 13 1943) was a California artist who flourished in the late 19th and William Keith may refer to William H Keith Jr (1950- author William Keith (artist (1838–1911 American artist famous for his California Thomas Hill may refer to People In the arts: * Thomas Hill (actor, American actor * Thomas Hill (author " Old Master " (or " old master " is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15 1606 &ndash October 4 1669 was a Dutch painter and etcher. Albrecht Dürer (ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ ( May 21, 1471 &ndash April 6, 1528) was a German painter, Printmaker François Boucher ( September 29 1703 – May 30 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste The core collection gifted by Judge E. B. Crocker has grown to a count of over 14,000 pieces. The Crocker Museum is the leading art museum of the capitol district and California Central Valley. The Central Valley is a large flat valley that dominates the central portion of the U
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Early California Collection
The California Collection includes scenes of early settlement, Gold Rush era, and turn of the century Tonalism. Colonisation (also known as Colonization) occurs whenever any one or more species populates a new area A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of Gold. Tonalism (about 1880 to 1915 is an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint Landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or These works capture a broad range of the early California experience including landscape and genre paintings. For the art of designing external spaces see Landscape architecture. A genre (ˈʒɑːnrə also /ˈdʒɑːnrə/ from French "kind" or "sort" from Latin: genus (stem gener-) is a loose set Examples from the core collection assembled by Judge Crocker are Thomas Hill's Great Canyon of the Sierra (1871), Charles Christian Nahl's Sunday Morning in the Mines, William Hahn's Market Scene (1872) and The Larder (1879) by Samuel Marsden Brooks. Late 19th and early 20th century Impressionism and Tonalism art has been added, including such works as Edward Deakin's Mont Blanc (1880); Xavier Martinez' The Bathers; and William Keith's After Morning Rain (ca. Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s Tonalism (about 1880 to 1915 is an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint Landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or William Keith may refer to William H Keith Jr (1950- author William Keith (artist (1838–1911 American artist famous for his California 1890s).
Old Master drawings
Many major European schools are represented in this collection of approximately 1400 images. There are noteworthy Italian masterpieces, especially from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Central European and Swiss Schools are strongly represented, particularly from the 19th century. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Present are a number of rare works of the French school. Some specific drawings held are: Albrecht Durer's Woman with a Banner, Jacques Callot's Study for the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and Rembrandt's Liberation of Saint Peter. Albrecht Dürer (ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ ( May 21, 1471 &ndash April 6, 1528) was a German painter, Printmaker Jacques Callot (c 1592 - 1635 was a Baroque Printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the North-Eastern Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15 1606 &ndash October 4 1669 was a Dutch painter and etcher.
Asian Art collection
Over 600 miniature Indian and Persian artworks donated by Edith and William Cleary form the backbone of this expanding collection. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The Iranian cultural region - consisting of the modern nations of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and
Architecture
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.
Today, the art gallery building retains its original Victorian Italianate design and serves as the main entrance to the Museum. The family mansion went through several uses and reconstructions until a 1989 renovation restored the historic façade and created a modern gallery interior. The original buildings, now connected, as well as the Herold Wing addition of 1969, were renamed the Crocker Art Museum in 1978.
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects was commissioned in 2000 to design the renovation of, and addition to the museum. The museum’s major addition and renovation will triple the institution’s size to 145,000 square feet and elevate it to a world-class facility. The design will give the Crocker, long considered one of the cultural gems of the western United States, a more prominent, contemporary image along with greatly expanded, skylit gallery spaces suitable for both its permanent collection and temporary exhibits. Also part of the project are a public plaza and larger commercial, educational, administrative and support spaces.
Bibliography of works about the Crocker Art Museum
- Janice T. Driesbach, Catherine Church Holland and Harvey Jones, Art of the Gold Rush. A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of Gold. University of California Press (1998)
- Susan Landauer, California Impressionists, Georgia Museum of Art (1996)
External links
- Crocker Art Museum Website
- Crocker Art Museum Digital Collections Website
- Crocker Art Museum Striking Gold Teacher Resources Website
- Gwathmey Siegel Crocker Art Museum project page
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