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Painting sketch featuring a cardboard box in various shades of red, pink, orange, and blue, beside a small green can or jar with red and blue marks inside of it. Both objects are sitting on a green surface with a dark background, and various colors of pai

New Collections: Robert Bechtle Papers and Tom Wudl Papers

Two collections of California artists are now part of the Archives of American Art

LEFT: Grayscale photographic contact sheet with images of Connie Zehr and assistants constructing a work of art. RIGHT: Page from a wire-bound sketchbook with a sample square of liquid polyester and notes made in pencil.

New Collections: Connie Zehr Papers and Cherie Raciti Papers

Watercolor image of mountain scene with a cloudless blue sky, trees and boulders in the foreground, and the artist’s stamp in the bottom left-hand corner.

Chiura Obata's American Landscape Art

Photograph of Chiura Obata teaching a children's art class at Tanforan Art School, 1942 / unidentified photographer. Chiura Obata papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Chiura Obata Papers

Photograph of Tony DeLap spray painting sculpture in Costa Mesa studio (detail), 1970 March / unidentified photographer. Tony DeLap papers, circa 1950-2015. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Tony DeLap Papers

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