page_title: Arthur Frank Mathews
section_title: Museum collections
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Frank Mathews / Death and legacy / Museum collections
caption_attribution_description: English: Vision of Saint Francis by Arthur Frank Mathews, 1911, oil on canvas, 91½ x 161½ in. (232 x 410 cm), Crocker Art Museum
context_page_description: Arthur F. Mathews was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Trained as an architect and artist, he and his wife Lucia Kleinhans Mathews had a significant effect on the evolution of Californian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His students include Granville Redmond, Xavier Martinez, Armin Hansen, Percy Gray, Gottardo Piazzoni, Ralph Stackpole, Mary Colter, Maynard Dixon, Rinaldo Cuneo and Francis McComas.
context_section_description: Afternoon Among the Cypress in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is typical of Mathews' landscape paintings of the Monterey Peninsula. The Grape (The Wine Maker) at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is one of his allegorical paintings representing early California. Youth at the Oakland Museum of California and Spring Dance at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are two of his many paintings of dancing female figures in semi-classical attire.  His work is extensively represented in the Oakland Museum of California.
  Mathews' work is in the following major museums:
  Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Oakland Museum of California
  San Diego Museum of Art
  Smithsonian American Art Museum
caption: The Vision of Saint Francis
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