Untitled, (July 11, 2020).
Ink on paper, 11.7 × 8.4 in.
From Sketchbook #76.

A drawer in the tool chest of the San Pedro studio, containing magnifying lenses, glue, eyeglasses, and an object created by McCafferty from the frame of an old fan.

Untitled, (November 3, 2013).
Ink on paper, 12 x 9 in.
From Sketchbook #72.

McCafferty at the dining table in Ellen’s sister’s house, San Francisco, 1980s.

Polaroid of McCafferty with his dogs, Mr. Wright and Sally, in his studio, 1980s.

Solar burn paintings in progress in the rooftop studio at the San Pedro home in the early 1980s.

View of landscape and the ocean from Hollister Ranch, Santa Barbara County, California.

Exterior of Hollister Ranch house during construction, ca. 1987.

McCafferty’s rooftop studio at his San Pedro home.

Detail of McCafferty’s metal table and magnets in the rooftop of his home in San Pedro.

A drawer in the San Pedro studio tool chest, holding a variety of the artist’s tools.

A drawer in the tool chest of the San Pedro studio.

A stack of solar burn on painted masonite in progress (8 x 10 in. each) on a shelf in the San Pedro studio.

Exterior of the house in San Pedro. Designed by architect Coy Howard.

McCafferty and his mentor and friend Tony DeLap at UC Irvine, CA, 1972.

McCafferty with friend and fellow lifeguard John Burich, who appears in the photobook Bicep (1974), Cabrillo Beach, c. 1970s.

In this photomontage from the mid-1980s, McCafferty demonstrates step by step the process of his solar burn paintings.

Jay and Ellen McCafferty in a hotel room in the early 1980s.

McCafferty working under the sun on the roof of his studio on 6th Street in San Pedro, late 1970s.

McCafferty solar burning, c. 1972.