Archivist Anna Rimel discovered four small watercolors by Yayoi Kusama among materials preserved in the Joseph Cornell Study Center, and the works were subsequently transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent sources including Smithsonian American Art Museum's own blog post, a Smithsonian collections blog, Artnet News, and Smithsonian Magazine, all consistent in details about Anna Rimel's discovery and the transfer to SAAM's collection. [tier=silver indep_score=0.833 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- The Lost Kusamas (seed:culture_and_philosophy)
- https://news.artnet.com/art-world/smithsonian-just-discovered-four-yayoi-kusama-paintings-no-idea-existed-hidden-museums-files-1738578 (corroboration)
- https://si-siris.blogspot.com/2020/02/discovering-yayoi-kusamaswatercolors-by.html (corroboration)
- https://americanart.si.edu/blog/lost-kusamas (corroboration)