Permanent display
Closing soon
Towns, Trains, and Terrain: Early California Prints from the Pope Collection
31 Oct 2021 — 30 Jan 2022 at Crocker Art Museum
· Sacramento
Towns, Trains, and Terrain: Early California Prints from the Pope Collection is a 2021 exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Drawing on the distinguished Pope Collection, the show brings together a selection of historic prints that document California's formative years — its emerging towns, expanding rail networks, and dramatic natural terrain.
Through these works on paper, visitors gain a vivid window into how early artists and printmakers perceived and recorded the rapidly changing landscape of the American West, making this exhibition a compelling intersection of art history and regional heritage.
Through these works on paper, visitors gain a vivid window into how early artists and printmakers perceived and recorded the rapidly changing landscape of the American West, making this exhibition a compelling intersection of art history and regional heritage.
About the venue
Crocker Art Museum
· Sacramento
The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings…