Browse Collections (38 total)

Donated in 2023, Women Beyond Borders showcases the transformative gift of the archives and artworks from the multisite, cross-cultural exhibition…

The AD&A Museum has a small collection of objects from Peru and the Andes augmented by a smaller group from Argentina.

The AD&A Museum houses a large collection of Ancient Mesoamerican Art.  Included in this group are numerous works from Mexico including spindle…

In 2018, the AD&A Museum was given numerous artworks from the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli. Included in this gift are…

In addition to the Margaret Mallory Bequest, the AD&A Museum includes significant holdings of art from Africa. This includes but is not limited to…

The AD&A Museum has a small but growing collection of electronic media including Ja'Tovia Gary's Giverny I (NEGRESSE IMPERIALE)

The AD&A Museum houses a small collection of works from Asia including Japanese textiles and a Vietnamese portfolio created using traditional…

In addition to the Sedgwick Collection of Old Master Paintings and The Fernand Lungren Bequest, the AD&A Museum has steadilycollected paintings…

In addition to the American and European works on paper (prints and drawings) created before 1900, the AD&A Museum includes a strong collection of…

In addition to the Bancroft Collection of Vintage Photographs and the Carolyn and Edwin Gledhill Collection, the AD&A Museum has established a…

In addition to outdoor sculpture, the AD&A Museum's collection includes numerous smaller works by artists such as Mark Di Suvero, UCSB Alum, and…

In addition to the Feitelson Collection of Old Master Drawings and the Ala Story Print Collection, the AD&A Museum includes a strong…

In 1986, Ulrich Keller, Professor of Photography, the History of Art and Architecture, UCSB, brought the exhibition  "Highway as Habitat" to the…

In 1965, Luella D. Saxby donated approximately 50 objects creating the F. May Young Collection at the AD&A Museum.  Subsequent gifts by Mrs.…

The AD&A Museum houses a number of works representing the artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America…

In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the AD&A Museum received by donation and purchase a collection of monotypes and unique prints produced at…

The AD&A Museum was given a small but relevant group of antiquities by Grace H. Dreyfus and Arthur Silver in the early 1970s. This collection has…

The AD&A Museum houses a small but significant collection of Islamic materials given in large part by Grace H. Dreyfus in 1971. These works…

The AD&A Museum has a strong collection of artwork from MFA students as well as a smaller group of faculty and former faculty members.  Many well…

In 1986, Keith Gledhill donated to the AD&A Museum a collection of over 100 photographic materials by his mother and father, Carolyn and Edwin…

In a serene setting alongside the Pacific Ocean, the AD&A Museum is uniquely positioned at the UC Santa Barbara to highlight a small number of…

In 2012, the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara was gifted 8 Portfolios from Exit Art. Founded in 1982 by Jeanette Ingberman and  Papo Calo, Exit…

Beginning in 1970, Andy Warhol took scores of photographs which served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings…

The AD&A Museum is indebted to UC Santa Barbara alumnus Ken Trevey for this significant contribution to the Museum’s holdings in graphic arts.…

Ala Story was the second director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, having had enjoyed a successful career as a gallerist in England and then as…

Ruth S. Schaffner (1914-1996) was a photojournalist and filmmaker, collector and patron, and art dealer whose galleries in Santa Barbara and Los…

This collection focuses on the work of contemporary Los Angeles artists in the 1990s and 2000s with a particular emphasis on artists who taught or…

Donated largely to the AD&A Museum in 2000, the Eileen and Peter Norton gift consists of watercolors, drawings and prints by twentieth century…

The Margaret Mallory Bequest comprises two distinct areas of the AD&A Museum holdings. In 1961, Margaret Mallory donated a group of twentieth…

In 1959, The Fernand Lungren Bequest became the first group of paintings acquired by the AD&A Museum for its permanent collection. Fernand Harvey…

Intricately carved reliefs cast in metal or carved in wood, the Morgenroth Collection of medals and plaquettes rivals major collections of similar…

The paintings of American artist Lorser Feitelson, along with his wife and fellow artist Helen Lundeberg Feitelson, have been increasingly recognized…

The Barry Berkus Family Collection contributes to the strength of the Museum's holdings of twentieth century works on paper. Made in 2006, the Berkus…

A collection of 580 daguerreotype, ambrotype, and tintype images taken between 1840-1880, the Peter and Virginia Bancroft Collection has as its…

Acquired by the AD&A Museum in 1960, the Mr. and Mrs. Francis Minturn Sedgwick Collection represents one of the earliest bequests to the Fine Arts…