Collection
The Cantor Center Visual Arts collection is encyclopedic in nature, covering antiquity, ethnographic art, modern, contemporary and more. The center houses over 500 works of African art, with a focus on figurative from Sub-Saharan Africa. About 70 works of this collection are on exhibit. The Center's Oceanic and Indonesian collections consist of over 450 objects and textiles, including works from the Batak. Native American art collections focus mainly on California, Southwest and Northwestern works. Basketry and cultural objects from the Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa peoples, as collected by John Daggett are on display, and are from the original museum collection. About 200 works from Mesoamerica are also on displaying, including terracotta works from West Mexico and ancient ceramics from the Mimbres, the Anasazi and Casas Grandes.
The Center has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin works outside of the Musee Rodin in Paris. The collection, purchased by B. Gerald Cantor, includes over 400 works.
In 2011, the museum announced the donation of 121 paintings and sculptures from Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, of Atherton, California. The collection, mostly of post-WW2 American art, includes Jackson Pollock's Lucifer as well as works from Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Willem de Kooning. A gallery devoted to the collection is slated to open in 2014.
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