The late Campbell Grant was the recognized expert in Santa Barbara regional rock art styles. He was author of "The Rock Paintings of the Chumash," "Rock Art of the American Indian," "The Rock Art of the North American Indian" and numerous magazine and journal articles on the subject of California and Southwest rock art. Grant was a Research associate of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History for many years, and President of the Santa Barbara chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.

His varied career included free-lance book illustration, teaching, avocado ranching and painting. In 1960, Campbell Grant visited a painted rock art site in the Santa Barbara area, and became from that point on a dedicated scholar of the subject. His work was supported by grants from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the National Science Foundation and Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The Rock Art Archive has in its Collections an album of Campbell Grant's original paintings, some of which were published in "The Rock Paintings of the Chumash."

Collection Contents: 1 oversized box containing a series of watercolor pages with painted rock art images used as plates in publications. Ref.: The Rock Paintings of the Chumash (Berkeley, LA, London: UC Press, 1965). See also Archive Corr file; see negatives, Ancient Images on Stone (JVT, Bookcase D, filed with Carter).

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