San Jose Museum of Art

The San Jose Museum of Art is a museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA, founded in 1969 as the "Civic Art Gallery".

The front part of the building was originally built as the San Jose post office in 1892, and was the city's library from 1937 to 1969. In 1972 the building was named a California Historical Landmark (#854), and in 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The "New Wing", comprising the majority of the current space, was opened in 1991.

The permanent collection, which focuses on 20th and 21st century art, with an emphasis on US West Coast artists, includes more than 2,000 works in a variety of media, including sculpture, paintings, prints, digital media, photographs, and drawings by artists such as Robert Arneson , Milton Avery, Gregory Bansamian , Joan Brown, Deborah Butterfield , Jim Campbell , Enrique Chagoya , Dale Chihuly, Ron Davis , Jay DeFeo, Roy DeForest , Tony Delap , Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Rupert Garcia , Philip Guston, Oliver Jackson , Hung Liu , Michael McMillen , Manuel Neri , Long Nguyen , Manuel Ocampo , Nathan Oliveira , Deborah Oropallo , Alan Rath , Raymond Saunders , Richard Shaw , Wayne Thiebaud, Bill Viola, and William Wiley.