Mills College Art Museum

Mills College Art Museum is a museum and art gallery in Oakland, California.

The originally all-girls' school Mills College was founded by Susan and Cyrus Mills, who were both interested in art and history. Susan's sister Jane Tolman was an art historian who developed the art history curriculum in 1875. With a Tolman Mills bequest the present museum building was constructed in 1925 called the Mills College Art Gallery. Albert M. Bender, the Mills College Trustee chiefly responsible for the museum's completion, also made a gift of 40 paintings and 75 prints by contemporary San Francisco Bay Area artists, and since then the gallery has become an important public collection of modern art in Northern California. Bender himself later became a principal founder of what is now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Wild Geese, by Rowena Meeks Abdy
Carmel, by Anne Bremer
Still Life, by Nora Allis Schmalhorst

References

Official website

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Bay Area arts organizations

Non-profit art spaces	Artists' Television Access Galería de la Raza SF Camerawork Intersection for the Arts Chinese Culture Center The LAB The Luggage Store Pro Arts Pier 24 Photography San Francisco Arts Commission San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Southern Exposure Walter and McBean Galleries

Museums	Asian Art Museum Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Cantor Center for Visual Arts Cartoon Art Museum Palace of the Legion of Honor Contemporary Jewish Museum de Young Museum Mexican Museum Mills College Art Museum Museo ItaloAmericano Museum of Craft and Folk Art Museum of the African Diaspora Oakland Museum Randall Museum San Jose Museum of Art SFMOMA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Artist-in-residence programs	Headlands Center for the Arts

Public and site-specific	Precita Eyes

Defunct	New Langton Arts

Coordinates: 37°47′00″N 122°10′55″W / 37.7833°N 122.1819°W / 37.7833; -122.1819

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