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The Berkeley Art Museum’s diverse collections of more than 13,000 objects are characterized by themes of artistic innovation, intellectual exploration, and social commentary, and reflect the central role of education in BAM/PFA’s mission. The museum was founded in 1963 following artist and teacher Hans Hofmann’s donation of forty-five paintings and $250,000 to the University; today BAM/PFA’s collection of work by this important Abstract Expressionist artist remains the largest in any museum internationally. The museum’s collection has evolved with particular strengths in historical and contemporary Asian art; early American painting; mid-twentieth-century, Conceptual, and contemporary international art; and California and Bay Area art. Highlights include important works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Albert Bierstadt, Paul Gauguin, Helen Frankenthaler, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, Jonathan Borofsky, and Shirin Neshat. Significant additions in recent years include the Jean and Francis Marshall Collection of Indian miniatures, and selected works from the renowned collection of Chinese painting belonging to UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill and Cahill family members.
Selected works from the Berkeley Art Museum collections are currently on view in the exhibitions MATRIX/REDUX; Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things; Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed; James Lee Byars: The Perfect Audience; Held Rectangles; and Hans Hofmann.
Search the Art Collection online: More than 13,000 records describing the permanent art collection of BAM, including some 1,300 images. For information about research access to specific objects in the BAM collections, please send e-mail to scarson@berkeley.edu.
Selected Artists and Works in the Collection:
