12.31.2012

luis barragan in colour....

Well,
I haven't been keeping my promise of blogging more...
I've only posted 8 times this month,
a far cry from my daily posts of yore....
Beter than most I guess,
but I tend to be a bit hard on myself sometimes....
So,
let's kiss 2012 goodbye,
and get the New Year and 
2013
started off right
with some form, color and cheer from
one of my favorite architects.





















All images from
and some tear sheets I found inside it from
Architectural Digest and Casa Vogue 
from the mid 80s.

More
on
Luis Ramiro Barragan Morfin
on
MONDOBLOGO
&

12.23.2012

dr. ameisenhaufen....

I stumbled upon the catalog
"Fauna"
by 
Dr. Ameisenhaufen
(1895-1955)
while loading books onto my new bookshelves
(thank Pops!)
down here in North Carolina.
He discovered some amazing things,
some I have never seen before....









 For more on 
Dr. Ameisenhaufen
check out his researcher
Wiki page....

12.18.2012

artists as collectors: the 1967 edition

 Donald Judd
NYC
1967

I love collector's houses, 
so when I saw artist Ricky Swallow
post the above picture on Instagram, 
I had to find its source.
The source turned out to be 
'Art in America', Nov. - Dec. 1967.

Artists who collect? 
Nothing better for me!
This just leaves me wanting more....

Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross
Damn Chaim! 
I see some Hartley, John Flannagan, Lachaise,
Archipenko, Avery, Metzinger, Derain,
Orozco, the Soyers and Max Ernst!

More from the Gross home:
Portrait by Mimi Gross, still life by Arshile Gorky,
Reginald Marsh, a Chaim 
and some African figures.

 Chaim Gross at his dining table.
He's got all the masters lined up:
Henry Moore, George Grosz, Lipchitz, Matisse,
Maillol, Pascin, Gorky and 
Modigliani

Stop it already Chaim!
1300 Ashanti bronze weights?
Love you!

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jenkins
The Mrs. is also known as Alice Baber, the painter.
They like ivories...
And Indian miniatures....
Looks like some Tantric Buddhist miniatures too.
I knew y'all were naughty!

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pearlstein
Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian power....

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Motherwell's brownstone.
The Mrs. is also known as 
Helen Frankenthaler....
I'd kill for this place and the amazing shit in it!
Rothko, Archaic greek sculpture, Egyptian art, Thai bronze Buddha,
David Smith bronze, Jacques Lipchitz sculpture, Rodin, Matisse,
and of course Frankenthaler and Motherwell.

More of Hottie Helen's place...
The yellow "chair" sculpture is by Barbara Cohen, 
Kenneth Noland, 
Hans Hoffmann, 
more African and Polynesian art...

Jacques Lipchitz's Studio
Look how big the pieces are! 
That's Jacques in the beret.
He collects African and Chinese figures.
Figures.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Rosenthal
Love this space!
Picasso, amazing African art, a Fritz Glarner 
Mr. Rosenthal's famous cube sculpture!

I WANT MORE!!!!

12.17.2012

surrealist women artists

I stumbled upon this book while looking for another
and ordered it from the title alone:
"In Wonderland: 
The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists 
in Mexico and the United States".
I was not disappointed! 
I highly recommend it.
Here are just a 
few of my favorite images from it:

Dorothea Tanning
"Birthday"
1942

Louise Boureois
"Femme Maison"
1946-47

Rosa Rolanda
"Self-Portrait Photogram"
c. late 1920s

Helen Lundeberg
"Plant and Animal Analogies"
1934-35

Helen Lundeberg
"Double Portrait of the Artist in Time"
1935

Yoyoi Kusama
"The Anatomic Explosion Happening 
at Statue of Alice in Wonderland"
Central Park, NYC
1969

Frida Kahlo
"What the Water Gave Me"
1938

Gertrude Abercrombie
"The Courtship"
1949
I was lucky enough to have found 
a sweet little painting by Gertrude 
at a county auction....

Adeline Kent
"Dark Mountain"
1944

Yoyoi Kusama
"Accumulation"
1962-64

Helen Lundeberg
"Self-Portrait (with Landscape)"
1944

L.e.e M.i.l.l.e.r
"Solarized Portrait of Dorothy Hill (Profile)"
1932

Dorothea Tanning
"Xmas"
1969

Remedios Varo
"Creation of the Birds"
1958

Francesca Woodman
"Self-portrait talking to Vince, Providence, Rhode Island"
1975-78

Adeline Kent
"Finder"
1953

 Adeline Kent's Studio
San Francisco
1950s

Bridget Tichenor
"Los Encarcelados"
1965

L.e.e M.i.l.l.e.r
"Women with Fire masks"
1941

Kati Horna
From the series 
"Ode to Necrophilia"
1962

Cortney Andrews
"Eros & Thanatos"
2008

Dorothea Tanning
"Rainy Day Canapé"
1970

Francesca Woodman
"Untitled, Rome, Italy"
1977-78

All images from the book:
If you live in LA 
I hope you went to see it at