Major Archival Collections

Edward J. Gallagher, Jr.

Born in 1892, Gallagher, a Baltimore businessman and architect, drew inspiration from Arizona's landscape, reflected in sketches, paintings, photographs, and more in this collection.

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Frances O’Brien

This collection contains many items from her early work which mainly comprised portraitures of popular political and social icons such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston S. Churchill, and many others.

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Lester and Amelia Bruhn Manuscript Collection

This collection documents a four year art installation imagined and created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Bruhn, expanding from North San Francisco (near the 101) to the Pacific Ocean at Bodega Bay.

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Robert McCall

The AVA's Robert McCall Collection is comprised of papers, photographs, pamphlets, 35mm slides, VHS tapes, and other materials spanning from 1937 until the preeminent space artist's death in 2010.

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Sara Wallach

This collection contains materials that give evidence to a meticulous craftswoman, printmaker and artist known for her sculptural etchings dubbed, “Saragraphs.”

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