UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA) is home to two foundational gifts of California Art from The Irvine Museum and Gerald E. Buck estate. In addition, the permanent collection of more than 4,700 works from the late 19th century and early 20th century through present day continues to grow, augmented by acquisitions and gifts. The university is planning to construct a permanent museum and research institute to serve as a global magnet for the presentation and study of California Art within its social, historical, environmental, and cultural frameworks. Until then, Langson IMCA offers exhibitions and programs in its interim space in downtown Irvine and on campus.
Recent exhibitions include: The Bruton Sisters: Modernism in the Making; Indefinitely Wild: Preserving California’s Natural Resources; Bohemian of the Arroyo Seco: Idah Meacham Strobridge; Spiritual Geographies: Religion and Landscape Art in California, 1890-1930; Picturing Summer; KISSSSS by Yong Soon Min; End of the Range: Charlotte Skinner and the Eastern Sierra; Common Ground: Early 20th Century Artists Communities in Southern California; and California Kinship: Painting Homelife in the Golden State Before 1940.
Top Photograph: Interior of Langson IMCA. Photo courtesy © The Regents of the University of California Inset Photograph: Langson IMCA with visiting UC Irvine students. Photo courtesy © The Regents of the University of California