Sixteen years ago the Laguna Art Museum acquired much of the work of artist Peter Krasnow, and responding to that gift from his foundation, pledged to mount a definitive show of paintings and sculpture by this under appreciated West Coast Modernist. That big thank you exhibition has arrived, along with a catalogue documenting the range of his work, from colorful, narrative and folklore-based early pieces to later geometric tableaus. From decades of art by the LA-based Ukrainian-Jewish émigré (born Feivish Reisberg), “Maverick Modernist” features a fraction of the museum’s own Krasnow holdings but thoughtfully surveys his distinctive work, charting both a movement and an often- overlooked artist who now finds immortality in Laguna Beach.