American and Californian Art: 19th Century, 1848-1900
The Museum's collection of early California and American art includes outstanding examples dating from the Gold Rush through 1900. The core collection, assembled by Judge E. B. Crocker in the early 1870s, is the only such collection to remain virtually intact in its original setting. Among the highlights are Charles Christian Nahl’s Sunday Morning in the Mines, Thomas Hill’s Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite, and William Hahn's Market Scene, Sansome Street, San Francisco. Works by Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Marsden Brookes, A.D.O. Browere, and William Keith are among other landscapes, genre scenes, and still lifes that help document both California ’s history and its importance as a leading art center. In addition to the core collection assembled by the Crockers, the Museum has since added important examples by late 19th and early 20th century Californians, including signature works by Giuseppe Cadenasso, Dong Kingman, Xavier Martinez, M. Evelyn McCormick, Mary Curtis Richardson and Theodore Wores.
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Portrait of Margaret Crocker, 1877
Pebbles, Francis Marion
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The Indian Camp, 1874
Nahl, Charles Christian
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The Love Chase, 1869
Nahl, Charles Christian
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Selecting the First Cradle, n.d.
Bacon, Henry
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Sunday Morning in the Mines, 1872
Nahl, Charles Christian
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The Fandango, circa 1873
Nahl, Charles Christian
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Market Scene, Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1872
Hahn, William
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Great Canyon of the Sierras - Yosemite, 1871
Hill, Thomas
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Monterey Deer, circa 1878
Strong, Elizabeth
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Sugar Loaf Peak, El Dorado County, 1865
Hill, Thomas
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Still Life (The Larder), 1862
Brookes, Samuel Marsdon
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Soda Springs, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1868
Bush, Norton
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Miners in the Sierra, 1869
Bush, Norton
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Lake Tahoe, n.d.
Bush, Norton
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Music, n.d.
Blashfield, Edwin Howland
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Twilight on the Old American River, circa 1873
Marple, William L.
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Mill Creek Canyon, n.d.
Hill, Thomas
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Santa Barbara Coast, 1870
Arriola, Fortunato
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Mont Blanc, circa 1880
Deakin, Edwin
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Wavery Oaks, 1898
Hill, Thomas
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Portrait of Mrs. Harry Walker, 1881
Brush, George de Forest
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Portrait of Mary Blanche Hubbard, 1889
Richardson, Mary Curtis
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Foggy Morning Near San Raffael, 1881
Rix, Julian Walbridge
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In the Yosemite Valley, 1871-1872
Bierstadt, Albert
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Marin Sunset in Back of Petaluma, not dated
Tavernier, Jules
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Riders at the Stream, 1895
Borglum, Gutzon
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Crossing the Isthmus, circa 1858
Browere, Albertus Del Orient
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Little Miss San Francisco, 1853
Nahl, Charles Christian
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Untitled Landscape (Calistoga Woods), 1873
Williams, Virgil
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'City of Lakeport' on Clearlake, 1876
Denny, Gideon Jacques
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