Muralist Wyland wanted 20% of California's profits from sales of license plates with his whale painting as the backdrop. The state held a contest to replace it.
The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans. By Jillian Steinhauer Claire Tabouret, an artist in Los Angeles, was chosen to ...
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