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The Monterey Museum of Art’s contemporary art holdings include paintings and works on paper by Bay Area abstract and figurative artists such as Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and Roland Petersen plus sculptural works by artists including George Rickey. The Museum’s formidable collection of postwar and contemporary prints includes Henri Matisse’s Jazz series as well as notable works by Pablo Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, James Rosenquist, Hans Hartung and Wayne Thiebaud.