• "Near Modesto" painting by Emil Kosa Jr. at Chapman's Hilbert Museum.
    Emil Kosa Jr., Near Modesto. Oil on board, 1940.
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» The Hilbert Museum of California Art

The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University was established thanks to the generosity of Mark and Janet Hilbert, whose superlative collection focuses on the “California Scene” painting movement of roughly the 1920s through the 1970s and beyond. The Hilbert Collection – which includes oils, watercolors, sketches and lithographs of rural and urban scenes, coastal views, farms, ranches, freeways and landscapes of everyday life in the Golden State – is a significant repository of 20th-century representational art by California artists.

For more detailed information, please visit our museum website.

(Pictured above: Emil Kosa Jr., Near Modesto. Oil on board, 1940, Mark and Janet Hilbert Collection.)


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Thank You!


Chapman University thanks an anonymous donor for a $10 Million gift for the expansion of Hilbert Museum of California Art. A truly transformational gift for the museum and art at Chapman.