Dorothea Lange Collection

The OMCA Art Department has its origins in the Oakland Art Gallery, founded in 1916. The Department holds the most comprehensive California regional collection anywhere. Visitors to the museum will see the state's creative spirit manifest in a survey of art from the mid-1800s to the present. The Art Department collects and exhibits art in all media -- painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, photography, mixed media, installation, and craft. Our guidelines for collecting the art of California are that the artist was born, raised, studied in, moved to, or work in the state.

For more information on the collection, please refer to The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum, available in the Museum Store.