Californian and American Art

The Crocker Art Museum houses one of the state's premier collections of Californian art, offering the most comprehensive collection of art from statehood to the present.

To read more about Californian and American Art, click on either “1848 to 1945” or “1946 to Present” below.

William Keith (American (born Scotland), 1838-1911)

Mount Tamalpais, ca. 1871

Oil on canvas

Charles Christian Nahl (American (born Germany), 1818-1878)

Sunday Morning in the Mines, 1872

Oil on canvas

Charles Christian Nahl (American (born Germany), 1818-1878)

The Fandango, 1873

Oil on canvas

William Hahn (American (born Germany), 1829-1887)

Market Scene, Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1872

Oil on canvas

Thomas Hill (American (born England), 1829-1908)

Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite, 1871

Oil on canvas

Thomas Hill (American (born England), 1829-1908)

Sugar Loaf Peak, El Dorado County, 1865

Oil on canvas

Samuel Marsden Brookes (American (born England), 1816-1892)

Still Life (The Larder), 1862

Oil on canvas

Norton Bush (American, 1834-1894)

Soda Springs, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1868

Oil on canvas

Norton Bush (American, 1834-1894)

Miners in the Sierra, 1869

Oil on canvas

Norton Bush (American, 1834-1894)

Lake Tahoe, 1880

Oil on canvas

Clarence K. Hinkle (American, 1880-1960)

Palm Canyon, n.d.

Oil on canvas

Colin Campbell Cooper (American, 1856-1937)

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1916

Oil on canvas

Percy Gray (American, 1869-1952)

Cypress Trees Near Point Lobos, 1924

Watercolor on artist's board

Charles Dormon Robinson (American, 1847-1933)

Crests of the Sierra, 1909

Oil on canvas

Arthur Frank Mathews (American, 1860-1945)

Vision of Saint Francis, 1911

Oil on canvas

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862-1934)

In the Station Waiting Room, Boston, ca. 1915

Oil on canvas

Antonio Prieto (American (born Spain), 1912-1967)

Bottle, mid-1950s

Stoneware, reduction fired with sgraffito decoration

Thomas Hill (American (born England), 1829-1908)

Waverly Oaks, 1898

Oil on canvas

William L. Marple (American, 1827-1910)

Lake Tahoe, 1873

Oil on canvas

Xavier Martinez (American (born Mexico), 1869-1943)

The Bathers, n.d.

Oil on canvas

Charles Rollo Peters (American, 1862-1928)

San Fernando Mission, n.d.

Oil on canvas

Edgar Alwin Payne (American, 1883-1947)

California Coast, n.d.

Oil on canvas

Jacques Schnier (American (born Romania), 1898 - 1988)

Pierced Relief (abstract form), 1961

Brass

Wayne Thiebaud (American, born 1920)

Boston Cremes, 1962

Oil on canvas

Elmer Nelson Bischoff (American, 1916-1991)

Group of Houses, 1961

Oil on canvas

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