The Sherman Library & Gardens’ art collection consists principally landscape paintings of artists working in Southern California. Arnold Haskell, founder of Sherman Library & Gardens, personally collected many of these pieces in the 1970s. Much of the collection is on display in Sherman Library.
Among the artists represented in the collection are:
- Jean Goodwin Ames (1903-1986)
- Rex Brandt (1914-2000)
- Arthur Cahill (1878-1970)
- Edward E. Chiapella (1879-1951)
- Timothy J. Clark (1951-)
- Frank W. Cuprien (1871-1948)
- William Darling (1882-1963)
- Phil Latimer Dike (1906-1990)
- Darwin Duncan (1905-2002)
- Roger Folk
- Eugene Pierre Franquinet (1875-1940)
- Percy Gray (1869-1952)
- William Alexander Griffith (1866-1944)
- Anna Althea Hills (1882-1930)
- Clarence Hinkle (1880-1960)
- Joan Irving (1916-1995)
- Dan Lutz (1906-1978)
- Matilda MacCulloch (1861-1948)
- Jean Mannheim (1863-1945)
- La Verne Parker (1914-2004)
- Edgar Payne (1883-1947)
- Catherine Snell Tuttle (1893-1971)
- Theodore Van Cina (1865-1940)
- William Wendt (1865-1946)
- Anonymous