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History Gallery. Photo: Jeff Warrin.
Art Gallery. Photo: Terry Carroll.
Art Gallery. Photo: Terry Carroll.
All Pixar Images: ©Disney/Pixar.
Front Entrance. Photo: Terry Carroll.
OMCA Store. Photo; Howard Thornton.
OMCA Ad: Objects. Photo: Engine Company 1
OMCA Ad: Eureka. Photo: Engine Company 1
Visit
New Oak Street entrance. Photo: Terry Carroll.
"Night School" at the Museum. Photo: Jason Lew.
Visitors enjoy First Fridays After Five on the restaurant terrace. Photo: Jason Lew.
Visitors watch a performance in the Art Gallery. Photo: Rue Flaherty.
About
Opening Weekend Celebration. Photo Terry Carroll.
Executive Director Lori Fogarty. Photo: Abigail Huller
Exploring the museum gardens. Photo: Rue Flaherty.
Golden Gala, 2008. Photo: Scotty Morris.
Museum's koi pond. Photo: Rue Flaherty.
Kitelines exhibition at Oakland International Airport curated by Museum's Professional Services Department . Photo: Michael Temperio.
Mark Di Suvero, Homage to Charlie Parker, 1977, 159" x 428". Gift of the artist, Oakland Museum Women's Board, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Photo: M. Lee Fatherree. Calendar
June
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Elizabethan Stage 2006 set and ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac. Photo: T. Charles Erickson.
Collections
Art
Richard Diebenkorn, Figure on a Porch, 1959, Oil on canvas. Gift of the Anonymous Donor Program of the American Federation of Arts.
Elmer Bischoff, Figure in Landscape, c. 1957, Oil on canvas. Gift of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board.
Dorothea Lange, Imperial Valley-People in Camps, 1935. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California, gift of Paul S. Taylor
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, 1936. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
Lucia K. Mathews, Oranges (Portrait of a Red Haired Girl), 1910. Watercolor on paper, 25.5 x 18.25 inches, with Furniture Shop frame, 41.25 x 34.25 inches. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California; gift of Harald Wagner.
Helen Nestor, Lesbian Mother and Her Daughter, 1978, gelatin silver print, H: 12.13 in, W: 11 in. Gift of the artist.
Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, 1868, Oil on canvas. H: 36 in, W: 54 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California, gift of Miss Marguerite Laird in memory of Mr. and Mrs. P.W. Laird.
Isaac W. Baker, Untitled (Portrait of a Chinese Man), c.1851, Sixth plate daguerreotype, H: 3.75 in, W: 3.25 in. Gift of an Anonymous Donor.
Peter Voulkos, Plate, 1962, stoneware, glaze, H: 16.25 in, W: 16.25 in. Gift of the Art Guild of the Oakland Museum of California.
Margaret De Patta, Watch, 1942, sterling silver, ebony, H: 2 in, W: 2.5 in, D: 1 in. Art Deaccession Fund Purchase.
History
Fruit crate label, “Splendid” brand, 1935. Gift of Old Promises.
Pomo basket with acorn woodpecker and California quail feathers, clam shell disk beads, and abalone shell pendants. Collected by C.P. Wilcomb in 1911.
Manchu military dress uniform, Ch’ing dynasty, Gift of Miss Ruth Gillard.
Daguerreotype of a Young Woman, ca. 1850. Gift of Marston Campbell.
Led by Mario Savio (front row, second on the right in tie and jacket), thousands of students marched in protest while the University of California Regents considered a ban on campus political activities. November 20, 1964. Tribune collection. Photograph: Chris Kjobech.
The meeting of the rails at Promontory Point May 10, 1869 (detail). The Andrew J. Russell Collection.
Vegetable dish, transfer ware, c. 1830 Staffordshire England. Collected by Charles Wilcomb.
Fruit crate label, “Sea Cured” brand, 1937. The Del Monte Collection.
Cox's California Seeds Box, ca. 1900. The Del Monte Collection.
Nature
Treefrog in Natural Sciences Gallery.
Excavation site at Rustler Ranch.
San Mateo Creek.
Herring fishers bringing in the harvest, San Francisco. Pacific herring enter the Bay to spawn in winter, when the water is freshened by river flows.
American Robin.
A view of the Natural Sciences Gallery before renovation.
Exhibitions .
The Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion
Carved hornbill skull made in China depicting four figures in landscape 1975 Gift of Helen Pritchard Photo David Maisel.
PIXAR: 25 Years of Animation
All Pixar Images: ©Disney/Pixar.
Off-Site exhibition: Oakland International Airport Terminal 1, Connecting Walkway and Terminal 2
Off-site exhibition: Gallery 555
Nemo Gould Doubtful, 2010. Radio cabinet, photo enlarger lamp, chair legs, chair arms, vacuum tubes, tube testing meter, massage motor, wallpaper, electric saw parts, motorcycle engine parts, thread spindles, shoe forms, door springs, lights, LEDs, switch
Off-site exhibition: Sculpture Court at City Center
Shawn E. Hibma Cronan Exhibition view Photo: Michael Temperio
Off-site exhibition: 500 12th Street
Community
In the Community
Art and Soul, Oakland
Advisory Councils
Asian Pacific Advisory Council
Education
Visitors work on an art project during Family Explorations! Photo: Jason Lew.
Members’ Preview of the exhibition Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA. Photo: Jason Lew.
Docent and students in the Natural Sciences Gallery. Photo: Jason Lew.
Educational Resources
The California Spotted Bat is one of 25 bat species found in California. © Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International.
Join & Give
2007 Sogetsu Ikebana Flower Show. Photo Jason Lew.
Your gift of $2,500 or more will be acknowledged on the Community Donor Wall. Photo: Terry Carroll
Members Preview of the exhibition Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA. Photo: Jason Lew.
2009 Lunar New Year Celebration. Photo: Jason Lew.
A mochi-pounding performance at the 2007 Lunar New Year Celebration. Photo: Rue Flaherty.
Get Involved
Mochi pounding at the 2009 Lunar New Year Celebration. Photo: Jason Lew.
Annual Wildflower Show 2008. Photo Jason Lew.
A docent leads a school group through the Natural Sciences Gallery. Photo: Jason Lew.
Press Room
Paul S. Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, c. 1934. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
Exhibitions
Awakening from the California Dream: An Environmental History. "Clearcutting Kills Salmon" sign near Half Moon Bay, 1992. Photo by Robert Dawson.
California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats. Cresent shelfstone, formed by water dripping down a stalactite into a pool. Photo by Peter & Ann Bosted.
California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats. Rappelling into a cave lake. Photo by Peter & Ann Bosted.
