Oakland Museum of California has re opened after an extensive renovation.
California art and design is the Oakland Museum’s reason for being – “representing the region’s creative output and its relationship to, and influences on, the nation and the world, from the mid-1800s to the present…The new Gallery of California Art showcases more than 800 works from the Oakland Museum of California’s collection…”
Landscape paintings from the 1850s, photographs by Dorothea Lange, furniture, crafts and sculpture are all collected here to showcase the diversity of California art.
Gallery of California Art – Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA
(Images: “Oranges (Portrait of a Red Haired Girl)”, 1910 – Lucia K. Mathews and “Figure on a Porch, 1959” – Richard Diebenkorn)