Rick Bartow (Wiyot, 1946–2016), The Magical Mind in Rural America (detail), 2015. Acrylic and graphite on unstretched canvas, 73 1/2 x 219 1/2 in. (186.69 x 557.531 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions 2024.16. Artwork © Rick Bartow Trust. Photograph by Randy Dodson
de Young Museum
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
Discover how art, ceremony, and landscape intertwine in the cultures of northwestern California's Native peoples. This groundbreaking exhibition—the first in a series dedicated to California's Indigenous regions—showcases masterworks from Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tolowa, Tsnungwe, and Wiyot communities, combining museum treasures with contemporary commissions and significant new acquisitions that celebrate the vital creative traditions of these communities.