Permanent Collection
SBMA's permanent collection includes more than 27,000 works of art, including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, glass, jades, bronzes, lacquer and textiles. These works represent the arts of Asia, Europe and the Americas spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Particular strengths of the permanent collection include:
- 19th-century French art (Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism)
- 19th and 20th-century American art (paintings and works on paper)
- Contemporary Regional art (20th-century and 21st-century California artists to the present)
- Western Pacific Rim photography (contemporary Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
- Buddhist art (Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, Indian)
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