Crocker Art Museum :: A Pioneering Collection

The finest early collection of master drawings in the United States, the Crocker Art Museum collection was purchased for the most part in 1869-71 by the Museum’s founders, E. B. and Margaret Crocker. A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum, which opens in conjunction with the Museum’s new Anne and Malcolm McHenry Works on Paper Study Center, celebrates the beauty, quality and scholarly importance of the collection in 56 drawings, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Fra Bartolommeo, Anthonie van Dyck and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. New acquisitions and new discoveries are also featured. Crocker curator William Breazeale organized this exhibition and is the lead author for the exhibition catalogue.