The collection of modern and contemporary art began with a strong foundation through the support of Donald Bear, the Museum's first Director, and pivotal gifts by Wright S. Ludington, the Ala Story Collection of International Modern Art, founding members of the Board of Trustees, and many others. These early benefactors recognized the importance of a strong modern and contemporary presence, an important objective that continues today. Over the span of nearly seventy-five years, the Museum has amassed a modern and contemporary collection with three primary areas of concentration: the art of Europe, Latin America, and the United States, with a specific emphasis on California art.

European Modernism:

©Ingeborg & Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880-1938 Davos, ca. 1924 Oil on canvas 16 x 20" Gift of Margaret P. Mallory 1991.154.16	©VG Bild-Kunst	Max Pechstein German, 1881-1955 Die Alte Brücke (The Old Bridge), ca. 1910-11 Oil on canvas 16 1/2 x 15 1/2” Gift of the Joseph B. and Ann S. Koepfli Trust 2011.2
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ADAGP)	Georges Rouault French, 1871-1958 Clownerie, ca. 1917 Gouache and oil on paper marouflaged to linen Bequest of Wright S. Ludington 1993.1.7	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ADAGP)	Marc Chagall Russian (active France), 1887-1985 Young Girl in Pursuit, ca. 1927-28 Oil on composition board 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 " Gift of Mme. Ganna Walska 1963.18
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ADAGP)	Joan Miró Spanish (active France), 1893-1983 Femme fuyant l'incendie (Woman Fleeing Fire), 1939 Pencil and gouache on watercolor paper 13 x 16" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1956.7.3	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ADAGP)	Wassily Kandinsky Russian (active France), 1866-1944 Linie-Fleck (Line-Spot), 1927 Oil on pressed pulp board 17 3/4 x 26 1/4" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gershwin 1956.5.4
©Artists Rights Society, Inc.	Salvador Dali Spanish, 1904-1989 Honey is Sweeter than Blood, 1941 Oil on canvas 20 x 24" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Tremaine 1949.17	©Estate of John Tunnard	John Tunnard British, 1900-1971 Last Day, 1944 Pastel, wash, gouache, crayon, pen and ink on paper 15 x 22" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1947.13.12
©Artists Rights Society	Ossip Zadkine Russian (active France), 1890-1967 Pomona, 1941 Ebony Bequest of Wright S. Ludington 1993.1.25	©Jacques Lipchitz	Jacques Lipchitz Lithuanian (active France and United States), 1891-1973 Head of Raymond Radiguet, 1920 Bronze Bequest of Wright S. Ludington 1993.1.20
©The Henry Moore Foundation	Henry Moore British, 1898-1986 Three Figures in a Setting, 1942 Ink and wax crayon on gray paper 17 3/4 x 16 3/4" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1945.6.11	©Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust	Wyndham Lewis British, 1882-1957 The Island, 1942 Oil on canvas 27 1/2 x 36 5/8" Gift of the Women's Board 1986.51

Latin American Modernism

©SOMAAP	Diego Rivera Mexican, 1886-1957 Man Loading Donkey with Firewood, 1938 Pencil and watercolor on paper 24 1/2 x 19 1/4" SBMA, Gift of Barbara J. and Robert K. Straus 1991.47	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	David Alfaro Siqueiros Mexican, 1896-1974 La Colina de los Muertos, 1944 Ducco on board 37 1/4 x 27" Gift of Mrs. MacKinley Helm 1969.35.51
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (SOMAAP)	José Clemente Orozco Mexican, 1883-1949 Las masas (The Masses), 1935 Black-and-white lithograph 13 1/4 x 16 1/2" Gift of Mr. Robert M. Light 1994.15.1	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ADAGP)	Wifredo Lam Cuban (active France), 1902-1982 The Casting of the Spell, 1947 Oil on burlap 43 1/8 x 36" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1956.2.4
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VEGAP)	Joaquin Torres-Garcia Uruguayan, 1879-1949 Composition, 1932 Oil on canvas 32 1/4 x 25 3/4" Musuem purchase with funds provided by the 20th Century Art Acquisition and Endowment Funds, The Grace Jones Richardson Trust, Jon B. and Lillian Lovelace, and Les and Zora Charles 1997.69	©The Alfredo Ramos Research Project	Alfredo Ramos Martinez Mexican, 1871-1946 Madonna, 1935 Charcoal and gilt paint on paper 39 5/8 x 31 1/2" Gift of Mrs. John M. Case in memory of John Hopkins Denison, Jr. 1952.22
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (SOMAAP)	Carlos Orozco Romero Mexican, 1898-1984 Mujer y niña (Mother and Child), 1940 Oil on board 9 x 11 1/2" Gift of Mrs. MacKinley Helm 1969.35.34	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (SOMAAP)	Carlos Mérida Guatemalan, 1891-1984 Fuga (Escape/Fugue), 1940 Oil on canvas 15 7/8 x 12 1/2" Gift of Mrs. MacKinley Helm 1969.35.25
©SOMAAP	Gunther Gerzso Mexican, b. 1915 Dos Personajes, 1956 Oil on canvas 36 x 26 1/2" Partial gift of Charles A. Storke 1994.57.12	©VAGA	Rufino Tamayo Mexican, 1899-1991 El fumador (The Smoker), 1947 Crayon on paper 29 x 21 1/2" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wilson 1991.44

Siqueiros Mural

Portrait of Mexico Today is the third and final mural executed by David Alfaro Siqueiros during a six-month period of exile in Los Angeles in 1932. Painted on the interior walls of a semi-enclosed garden structure in the private Pacific Palisades home of filmmaker Dudley Murphy, the mural fortunately, escaped the ravages of protest and neglect and was generously donated to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 2001.

©Artists Rights Society	David Alfaro Siqueiros Mexican, 1896-1974 Portrait of Mexico Today, 1932 Casein oil pigments on cement applied to plaster 99 x 384 x 101" Anonymous gift 2001.50

U.S. Modernism

©Estate of Marsden Hartley	Marsden Hartley American, 1877-1943 Still Life, ca. 1929-30 Oil on cardboard 25 3/4 x 18 3/4" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1950.3		Charles Demuth American, 1883-1935 Poppies, 1926 Watercolor on cardboard 19 1/2 x 13 5/8" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1945.6.4
©Estate of Joseph Stella	Joseph Stella Italian (active USA), 1887-1946 The By-Product Storage Tanks, ca. 1918 Charcoal on paper 21 7/8 x 28" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1944.2.10	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Yasuo Kuniyoshi American, 1893-1953 Weather Vane and Objects on a Sofa, 1933 Oil on canvas 34 x 60" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1942.30
©Artists Rights Society, Inc.	Georgia O'Keeffe American, 1887-1986 Dead Cottonwood Tree, 1943 Oil on canvas 36 x 30" Gift of Mrs. Gary Cooper 1951.6	©Estate of Kay Sage	Kay Sage American, 1898-1963 Second Song, 1943 Oil on canvas 24 x 18" Gift of Estate of Kay Sage Tanguy 1964.32
©Estate of Eugene Berman	Eugene Berman Russian (active USA and France), 1899-1972 Composition II, 1940 Ink wash, watercolor, and gouache on paper 9 1/2 x 12 5/8" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1944.2.2	©Estate of Edward Hopper	Edward Hopper American, 1882-1967 November, Washington Square, ca. 1932-1959 Oil on canvas 34 1/8 x 50 1/4" Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton to the Preston Morton Collection 1960.64
©The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation	Jacob Lawrence American, 1917-2000 Decommissioning the Sea Cloud, 1944 Watercolor on paper 20 3/4 x 29 1/8" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Jr. 1947.14	©Estate of Charles Burchfield	Charles Burchfield American, 1893-1967 Early Winter Twilight, 1943-1959 Watercolor on paper, mounted on board 42 x 56" Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton for the Preston Morton Collection 1960.52

California

©Estate of Lorser Feitelson	Lorser Feitelson American, 1898-1978 Untitled, 1951 Acrylic on Masonite 24 x 48" Gift of June Harwood in Memory of Jules Langsner 1978.28.3	©Estate of Helen Lundeberg	Helen Lundeberg American, 1908-1999 The Portrait, 1953 Oil on canvas 30 x 36" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. McCray 1959.50
©Estate of Rico Lebrun	Rico Lebrun Italian (active USA), 1900-1964 The Magdalene, 1950 Tempera on Masonite 63 7/8 x 48" Gift of Wright S. Ludington 1960.18	©Estate of Richard Diebenkorn	Richard Diebenkorn American, 1922-1993 Woman and Checkerboard, 1956 Oil on canvas 59 x 56" Museum purchase, Second Pacific Coast Biennial Fund 1957.18
©Karl Benjamin	Karl Benjamin American, b. 1925 FS #1, 1961 Oil on panel 42 x 50" Museum Purchase 1964.6	©Frederick Hammersley Foundation	Frederick Hammersley American, 1919-2009 Growing Game, 1958 Oil on canvas 42-7/8 x 33" Museum Purchase with funds provided by an Anonymous Donor and the Ludington Antiquities Fund 2012.24
©Estate of David Park	David Park American, 1911-1960 Three Women, 1957 Oil on canvas 48 x 58" Gift of Mrs. K.W. Tremaine in honor of Mr. Paul Mills' appointment as Director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1970.20	©Estate of Joan Brown	Joan Brown American, 1938-1990 Gypsy Nativity, 1960 Oil on canvas 67 3/8 x 77 1.4" Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Challenge Fund, 20th Century Art Quasi Endowment Fund and Judith Little 2012.29
©Estate of Peter Voulkos	Peter Voulkos American, b. 1924 Sitting Bull, ca. 1959 Stoneware, wheel & paddled parts, slip, and glaze 69 x 37 x 37" Bequest of Hans G. M. de Schulthess 1965.16	©Artists Rights Society (VAGA)	Robert Arneson American, 1930-1992 Case of Bottles, 1963 Glazed ceramic (stoneware) and glass 10 1/2 x 22 x 15" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sheinbaum 1969.3
©June Wayne	June Wayne American, 1918-2011 The Cavern II, Kafka Series, 1951 Lithograph printed by Lynton R. Kistler 26 1/4 x 34 1/2" Unknown Donor 00.50	©Estate of Lee Mullican	Lee Mullican American, 1919-1998 Untitled, 1949 Oil on canvas 35 x 48" Gift of Lucille Goldsen 2000.53
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Wayne Thiebaud American, b. 1920 Desk Set, DATE Oil on canvas 18 x 22" Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits 2000.26	©Estate of William Dole	William Dole American, 1917-1983 Tower of Babel, 1962 Watercolor and collage on board 35 x 23" Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson, Los Angeles 2005.9
©Estate of John Altoon	John Altoon American, 1925-1969 Untitled (Sunset Series), 1964-65 Oil on canvas 60 x 56 1/4" Museum Purchase, Ludington Deaccessioning Fund 2010.9	©Estate of Edward Kienholz	Edward Kienholz American, 1927-1994 Untitled, 1958 Oil and assemblage on wood 47 1/2 x 48" Museum Purchase, 20th Century Art Acquisition Quasi Endowment Fund 2011.46
©Estate of John McLaughlin	John McLaughlin American, 1898-1976 No. 12, 1965 Oil on canvas 48 x 60" Gift of June Harwood in Memory of Jules Langsner 1978.28.2	©John McCracken	John McCracken American, born 1934 Untitled, 1977 Polyester resin, fiberglass, plywood 48 x 60 x 36" Gift of Ms. Meghan Williams in memory of her mother, Mrs. Virginia Williams 1979.26
©Billy Al Bengston	Billy Al Bengston American, born 1934 The Alamo - Brown, 1969 Lacquer and polyester resin on aluminum sheet 36 x 34" Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Chanin 1982.82	©Ed Moses	Ed Moses American, born 1926 Untitled (LAL), 1985 Acrylic and oil on canvas 78 1/2 x 65 1/2 x 1 1/2" Gift from the Collection of Laura-Lee W. Woods 1991.184.5

Postwar and Contemporary

©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Adolph Gottlieb American, 1903-1974 Composition, 1947 Oil on canvas 32 x 25" Gift of Burt Kleiner 1959.77	©Estate of George Tsutakawa	George Tsutakawa American, 1910-1997 Obos #5, 1957 Wood 34 x 19 1/2" Museum purchase, Third Pacific Coast Biennial Fund 1959.56
©VAGA	Jack Tworkov American, 1900-1982 Sky, 1954 Oil on canvas 59 1/8 x 67 1/8" Gift of Alexander Bing through the Plymouth Fund 1954.13	©Estate of Ernst Wilhelm Nay	Ernst Wilhelm Nay German, 1902-1968 Untitled, 1956 Oil on canvas 49 x 78 1/2" Bequest of Sarah Reed Platt 1973.47
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Hans Hofmann American, 1880-1966 Simplex Munditis, 1962 Oil on canvas 84 x 72" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hofmann 1962.42	©Estate of John Ferran	John Ferren American, 1905-1970 Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas 72 3/4 x 57 3/4" Gift of Mr. Roy Ferren 1968.23
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Dan Christensen American, 1942-2007 Rana, 1968 Acrylic on canvas 108 1/4 x 63" Gift of Mrs. Betty Freeman 1979.54	©John Seery	John Seery American, born 1941 Manhattan Jump, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 93 x 70 1/4" Gift of Mr. Leigh Block 1982.4
©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Larry Poons American, born 1937 Yangtze, 1969 Acrylic on cotton 79 1/8 x 190 1/2" Gift of Eva Roman in Memory of Murray Roman 1985.7	©Roy Colmer	Roy Colmer British, born 1935 Painting, #44, 1973 Acrylic on canvas 75 1/2 x 45 3/8 x 1 1/2" Gift of Claudia Tedesco-Colmer 2010.52
©Gyula Kosice	Gyula Kosice Argentinian, born 1924 Recepción-Emisión, 1967 Black plastic and light construction 27 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 5" Gift of Mercedes H. Eichholz 2006.77.2	©Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ADAGP)	Carlos Cruz-Diez Venezuelan, born 1923 Physichromie No. 352, 1967 Acrylic on board with plexiglass 24 x 47 5/8 x 1 3/8" Gift of the ARCO Collection 1995.53.5
©Briget Riley	Bridget Riley English, born 1931 Annul, 1965 Emulsion on board 21 1/4 x 21 1/4" Museum Purchase 1965.62	©Richard Anuszkiewicz via the Artists Rights Society, Inc. (VAGA)	Richard Anuszkiewicz American, born 1930 Centered Green, 1979 Acrylic on canvas 84 1/4 x 84 1/4" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Kleinhandler 1983.46
©David Hammons	David Hammons American, born 1943 Self-Portrait, 1971 Pigment on paper 20 x 28" Gift of Norma Bartman 1985.73.1	©Mike Kelley	Mike Kelley American, born 1954 Apple Tree (from the "Monkey Island" series), 1982-83 Acrylic on paper 41 1/2 x 50" Gift of Gerald Ayres 2010.53
©Estate of Bruce Connor	Bruce Conner American, 1933-2008 Totems, Inkblot Drawing, November 15, 1981, 1981 Ink on paper 21 x 27" Museum purchase 2009.49	©William T. Wiley	William T. Wiley American, born 1937 The Scream for E.M., 1984 Crayon, pencil, and oil on unstretched, unsized canvas; wood with paint and found objects; ink on paper 87 x 151 1/2" Gift of Dorothy Goldeen 2009.57a-e
©Lari Pittman	Lari Pittman American, born 1952 Transcendental and Needy, 1990 Acrylic and enamel on mahogany panel 66 x 82 x 2" Museum Purchase, Ludington Deaccessioning Fund 2009.61	©Alison Saar	Alison Saar American, b. 1956 Terra Firma, 1991 Wood, tin, tar, & found objects 18 x 74 x 22" Museum purchase with funds provided by 20th Century Deaccessioning Fund, and Friends of Contemporary Art in celebration of the Museum's 50th anniversary. 1992.20
©Jack Goldstein	Jack Goldstein American, 1945-2003 Untitled, 1989 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 72 x 6" Museum purchase with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Bryant III Acquisition Endowment Fund 2008.56	©Anish Kapoor	Anish Kapoor British, born 1954 Turning the World Inside Out, 1995 Stainless steel 60 x 70" Museum Purchase, 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund and funds provided by Eli and Leatrice Luria and the Luria Foundation, Lillian and Jon B. Lovelace, Smith Richardson and the Grace Jones Richardson Trust, and the SBMA Visionaries 1998.48
©Kori Newkirk	Kori Newkirk American, born 1970 Channel 11, 1999 Encaustic on wood panel 64 3/4 x 48 1/2" Gift of Barry Sloane 2009.74.2	©Amy Adler	Amy Adler American, born 1966 Different Girls #9, 2002 Cibachrome print DIM" Museum Purchase, Ruth R. Braun Art Acquisition Endowment Fund 2008.45
©Diana Thater	Diana Thater American, born 1962 Untitled Videowall (Butterflies), 2008 Six flat screen LCD monitors, one Blu-ray DVD, one Blu-ray DVD player, one distribution amplifier, fluorescent light fixtures, Lee Filters DIM" Museum purchase with Suzette Morton Davidson Art Acquisition Endowment Fund 2009.16	©Estate of Nam Jun Paik	Nam June Paik South Korean, 1932-2006 TV Clock, 1963/1989 24 fixed-image color television monitors Museum purchase with funds provided by the Grace Jones Richardson Trust, Lillian and Jon B. Lovelace, Leatrice and Eli Luria and the Luria Foundation, Zora and Les Charles and the Cheeryble Foundation, Wendy and Elliot Friedman, and Lord and Lady Ridley-Tree 1999.33a-x
©Charles Long	Charles Long American, born 1958 Sundae Sculpting School, 2000 Modeling clay, fiberglass, concrete, light bulb, metal 60 x 48" Gift of Shoshana and Wayne Blank 2009.7	©Charles Garabedian	Charles Garabedian American, born 1923 Salome II, 2009 Acrylic on paper 47 3/4 x 65 1/2" Museum purchase, The Challenge Fund and The Museum Contemporaries 2011.6
©Ori Gerscht	Ori Gersht Israeli, born 1967 Blow Up: Untitled 4, 2007 Light jet print mounted on aluminum 75 1/2 x 2 1/2" Museum purchase with funds provided by an Anonymous Donor in loving memory of SMD and Tangerine from EAD 2009.15	©Yinka Shonibari	Yinka Shonibare English, b. 1962 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Asia), 2008 Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum 72 x 49 1/2" Museum purchase, the Austin Fund in Honor of Wright S. Ludington 2009.14
©Edgar Arceneaux	Edgar Arceneaux American, born 1972 Ophiuchus constellation is the 13th sign of the zodiac..., 2008 Graphite, dirt, gesso, charcoal and enamel on paper 60 x 137" Museum purchase with the Carol L. Valentine Art Acquisition Fund 2008.41	©Tony de Los Reyes	Tony de los Reyes American, born 1954 1851 (#3), 2011 Ink and oil on linen 33 1/2 x 56 1/2" Museum Purchase, General Art Acquisition Fund 2011.4