Comprising over 4,500 works of art, OCMA’s collection focuses on art produced during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by artists based in California and countries around the Pacific Rim. The museum’s major holdings include early and mid-century modernism, Bay Area Figuration, assemblage, California Light and Space, Pop Art, Minimalism, and installation art.
Untitled (Ocean Park Series), 1962
Oil on canvas
72 x 84 inches
Museum purchase with additional funds provided by Dr. James B. Pick and Dr. Rosalyn M. Laudati, Mr. Ward Chamberlin, Mrs. E.G. Chamberlin, Patricia Fredericks, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Neisser, Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Shea, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldstein, Zada Taylor, Mr. David H. Steinmetz and Mrs. Bernard McDonald, 1985.009
© Estate of John Altoon
El Gringo, from “Point Of View: A Contemporary Anthology of the Moving Image”, 2003
Video
4 minutes, 12 seconds
Museum purchase with funds provided through prior gift of Lois Outerbridge; Producers: Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Executive Producers: Jumex Collection, Mexico; Blink Digital, New York; Sponsor: The New Art Trust, San Francisco, 2003.013
© Francis Alÿs