Looking toward the future of its collection, this opening exhibition features 125 gifts that have been promised to the Crocker Art Museum in celebration of its expansion and 125th anniversary. Given by donors throughout California and across the United States, the works include sculpture, painting, works on paper, ceramics, and photography spanning the history of material culture worldwide. All of these works will one day become part of the Crocker’s permanent collection. Among the works in the exhibition are:

Viola Frey, Standing Man, 2000. Stoneware, 101 x 33 x 22 in. Promised gift of Mort and Marcy Friedman. Amedeo Modigliani, Nude, n.d. Blue and red crayon on beige wove paper, 10 3/8 x 13 1/8 in. Promised gift of the Elkus Family in memory of Ben Britton Elkus; China, Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE), Courtiers on Horseback, n.d. Earthenware, each approximately 14 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 5 in. Promised gift from the Loet Vanderveen Collection; Robert Mapplethorpe, Tulips in a Box, 1983. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in. Promised gift of Jon Stevenson and John Silici; John Twachtman, Artist’s Home, Greenwich, Connecticut, ca. 1890. Oil on canvas, 15 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. Promised gift of Dorothy and Norm Lien; Theodore Butler, Train in Flood, 1910.  Oil on canvas, 26 x 31 1/2 in. Promised gift of Anne and Malcolm McHenryZulu Peoples, South Africa, Wooden Staff with Maternity Figure, 1880s.  Wood with pigment, 38 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Promised gift of Rhea and Dan Brunner