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The Museum’s permanent collection owned by the City of Oxnard, was established in the 1920s. It primarily focuses on the art of California. A strong point of the collection is in its California plein-air holdings, including paintings by Emil Kosa Jr., Colin Campbell Cooper, Paul Lauritz, and Cornelius and Jessie Arms Botke. Along with a diverse collection of multi-cultural and ethnographic artifacts, another strength is its Hollywood portraits by photographer George Hurrell, from the classic film noire period of the 1930-40s. Currently, acquisition places emphasis on collecting art inclusive of all California art movements, and of educational value to a population that is highly diverse. For example, major paintings by Latino artists, Frank Romero, and contemporary California artist Michael Dvortcsak have been acquired to implement this expanded emphasis. Acquisitions have included Europa by John Valadez, Enter Tormenta by Gronk, Quiet Steps of Approaching Thunder by Alexey Steele, Rural Pearl a scanogram by Darryl Curran and Lost Creek, Bantiquos Lagoon by Peter Adams, President of the California Art Club. Major donations of art are a vital source of building the permanent collection. Past art donations have been received from the Lannan Foundation, Peter & Eileen Norton, who donated thirty contemporary works including Watch Out for Snakes When You are Looking for Diamonds by Therman Statom, along with promised bequests from the California Art Collection of Nancy Dustin Wall Moure and Ventura County Art Collector Jackson Wheeler, as well as gifts from artists themselves.
Silver Lake, by Millard Sheets, oil on canvas, c. 1925. Gift of Nancy Dustin Moure.
Artists
Peter Adams
Lita Albuquerque
Ted Allan
Richard Amend
F. Anfinson
Jessie Arms Botke
Charles Arnoldi
Mischa Askenazy
William Spencer Bagdatopoulos
Arthur Edwaine Beaumont
Sky Bergman
Edward Borein
Cornelis Botke
Christine Brennan
Nicholas Brigante
C.S. Bull
Mario Calvano
Colin Campbell Cooper
Lucien Clergue
Darryl J. Curran
Einar And Jamex De La Torre
Michael Dvortcsak
Robert Engel
Macduff Everton
Robert C. Eyberg
Jud Fine
Jeff Gambill
Harry Gamboa, Jr.
Anna Gaskell
Sonia Gechtoff
Robert Gil De Montes
Grigory Gluckman
Jane Gottlieb
Gronk
Frederik Grue
Junie Hamblett Harp Anderson
Ejinar Hansen
Edwin Hesser
Yoshiharu Higa
George Hurrell
Harry L. Hurwitz
Frank Hyder
Suzanne Jackson
Joe Jasgur
Ottilie Johnson
Gerd Herman Koch
Emil Jean Kosa
Louis Labro-font
Martella Cone Lane
Michail Federovich Larionov
Paul Lauritz
Jake Lee
Kathryn W. Leighton
Frank Lennartz
Franklyn Liegel
Sherry Loehr
Ruth Harriet Louise
José Lozano
Christian Marclay
Poli Marichal
Roberto Matta
Benjamin Newton Messick
Don Miles
John Millei
Sacha Moldovan
Bobbie Moline-kramer
Ginger Moore Maxwell
Julon Modjeska Moser
Martin Mull
Takashi Murakami
Elmer Ladislaw Novotny
Eric Orr
William Louis Otte
Philip Herschel Paradise
Lawton Silas Parker
Douglas Ewell Parshall
Elsie Palmer Payne
Doloris J. Pederson
Richard Earl Phelps
Daniel W. Pinkham
Elisse Pogofsky-harris
Leo Politi
Stanislaus Pociecha Poray
Kathryn Page Porter
Victor Von Pribosic
Hovsep Pushman
David Rivas
Frank Romero
Ernest David Roth
A.l "whitey" Schafer
Miriam Schapiro
Andy Schuessler
Millard Owen Sheets
Yinka Shonibare
Jeff Sojka
Alexey Steele
Susan Stinsmuehlen-amend
Gregory Sumida
Rufino Tamayo
Sylvia Torres
John Valadez
Patssi Valdez
Linda Vallejo
June C. Wayne
Attributed to William Wendt
Robert Werling
Beatrice Wood
Hiroko Yoshimoto
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