If you are an art lover and are traveling west this summer, there is an Arkansas connection to a popular exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

"Ruth Asawa: Retrospective," up through Sept. 2, contains more than 300 works by the influential artist who spent time in the early 1940s in an Arkansas internment camp.

Asawa, who died on Aug. 6, 2013 at 87 years old, was born in Norwalk, Calif. Her parents were Japanese immigrants who had seven children (Ruth was the fourth) and worked in agriculture, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

In 1942 Asawa's father was arrested under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which, in the wake of the attack on Pearl........

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