The Grace Hudson Museum

"The Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House in Ukiah, California, is an art, history and anthropology museum focusing on the lifeworks of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937)... Changing interdisciplinary exhibitions and public programs feature Western American art, California Indian cultures, histories of California’s diverse North Coast region, and the work of contemporary regional artists." Collections contain more than 30,000 objects, primarily Pomo Indian artifacts (particularly basketry) ethnographic field notes, unpublished manuscripts, historic photographs and the world's largest collection of Grace Hudson paintings. Grace Carpenter Hudson, daughter of Northern California pioneers and painter of Native Americans portraits. Hudson painted more than 650 oil portraits of her Pomo Indian neighbors and Pomo children during over forty years during which she and her husband, Dr. John Hudson, a physician and ethnographer, were involved in the study and preservation of the Pomo Indian culture. See website for details on accessing collections.