According to Ed Fosmire, Long Beach Museum of Art’s director of development, the museum will receive a donation later this winter of around 100 wood sculptures valued around $1 million to $1.5 million.

This should put the museum nearly on par with 2007–during which it received around 150 donated works, Fosmire said–including a gift announced today of 11 large drawings and paintings from the Les and Karen Weinstein collection in Los Angeles.

The Weinsteins’ donation, valued around $400,000, includes works by renowned still life painter Jeannette Pasin Sloan and mixed media assemblage-ist Alison Saar; seven works by famed Los Angeles muralist Kent Twitchell–including two paintings of the donors!–and two rare early portraits by, well, portraiture artist D.J. Hall.

If you make it to the museum on or before Feb. 10, you can see several of the Weinsteins’ gifts. They’re on display as part of the continuing “Picturing Identity” portraiture exhibit, which will close that day.

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