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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. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of the largest ...
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.
His uncle, Edwin B. Crocker, a wealthy California lawyer and later California Supreme Court justice, and his wife, Margaret Crocker (née Norton) founded the oldest still operating museum of the Western United States in Sacramento, the Crocker Art Museum. His nephew, Harry Crocker, was a movie star in the 1920s and, at one time, the personal ...
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.
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.
The Crocker Art Museum is hosting a new special series of concerts through April titled, “The Message: A Journey from Jazz to Hip Hop.” Highlighting local artists, the series explores the ...
A new exhibit highlighting the works of artist Wayne Thiebaud is back at the Crocker Art Museum. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
Tavernier was born on 27 April 1844 in Paris. He studied with French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias, but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him, along with Paul Frenzeny, on a year-long coast-to-coast sketching tour in 1873. [1] He arrived in San Francisco in the ...