The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. 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 international ceramics collections in the U.S., and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art. The Crocker Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
Old and new buildings of the Crocker Art Museum.
Marble commemorative plaque at the Crocker Art Museum
Charles Christian Nahl, Sunday Morning in the Mines (1872)
Gerrit van Honthorst's Allegory of Painting (1648).
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's 2020 population of 524,943 makes it the fourth-most populous city in Northern California, sixth-most populous city in the state, and the ninth-most populous state capital in the United States. Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California.
Image: Sacramento Skyline (cropped)
Image: Sacramento, California State Capitol (cropped)
Image: Crocker Art Museum 10 (cropped)
Image: Old Sacramento, Sacramento, California