Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SMMA)

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Quick Facts about SBMA

• Comprises 27,000 works of art - an art museum of magnitude and quality more commonly found in cities eight times the size of Santa Barbara
• Spans more than 5,000 years of human creativity
• Includes classical antiquities rivaled in the West only by the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Includes masterpieces of French Impressionism. No West Coast museum owns more Monet paintings
• Presents at its front door Portrait of Mexico Today, 1932, the only intact mural in the United States by David Alfaro Siqueiros , and capstone of the Museum's distinguished collection of Latin American art
• Brings world-renowned exhibitions to Santa Barbara
• Originates exhibitions that travel to museums across the Americas and Europe
• Welcomes 150,000 visitors to exhibitions and activities each year
• Provides education programs to over 40,000 people in Santa Barbara County each year, free transportation for school groups and after-school activities, and free California State Standard based eduation programs for Santa Barbara School district students in grades K-12
• Receives less than 1% of its budget from government grants and no regular tax dollars
• Spends approximately 20% of every dollar on education programs

represented artists

Larry Bell      George Wesley Bellows      Pierre Bonnard      Georges Braque      Marc Chagall      Christo & Jeanne-Claude      Chuck Close      Salvador Dalí      Raoul Dufy      Thomas Eakins      Jud Fine      Viola Frey      George Grosz      Marsden Hartley      Al Held      Gottfried Helnwein      Robert Henri      Hans Hofmann      Alexej von Jawlensky      Jasper Johns      Wassily Kandinsky      Gaston Lachaise

Jacques Lipchitz      Aristide Maillol      Henri Matisse      John McCracken      John McLaughlin      Isamu Noguchi      Emil Nolde      Claes Oldenburg      Pablo Picasso      Robert Rauschenberg      Auguste Rodin      John Singer Sargent      Miriam Schapiro      Egon Schiele      Kurt Schwitters      David Alfaro Siqueiros      Alexis Smith      Carrie Mae Weems      Paul Wonner