Gallery of California Art
The Oakland Museum of California boasts one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of California art in the world. Its collection spans from early creative expressions by Native Americans and Spanish missionaries to contemporary art works. The collection is renowned for painting, sculpture, photography, and design and decorative arts.
- Visitors enjoy a program in the Art Studio
- 4,280 additional square feet of gallery space, including a new gallery for changing exhibitions and for large-scale contemporary art.
- An Art Discovery Center offering hands-on, in-depth learning.
- Improved lighting and wall systems.
- A “perspectives gallery” enabling frequent rotations of works from the museum’s collection.
- Thematic-based installations that provide new points of entry for visitors to explore and understand California art history.
- Individual galleries that showcase some of the collection’s strengths, including Arts & Crafts, self-taught artists, and the work of individual artists, such as Richard Diebenkorn, Dorothea Lange, and Peter Voulkos.
- Dorothea Lange, Drought Refugees from Oklahoma, 1935. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
"You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
During construction, the Museum continues to engage students through ongoing outreach programs, such as the Dorothea Lange Presentation and Portfolio.