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THE GAMBLES, A JAPANESE ARTIST AND THE EARLY STARS OF SILENT FILM by Anne Mallek In the last, issue, I wrote about A. C. Vroman’s interest in Japan and his significant collection of Japanese netsuke, which as a young teenager Clarence Gamble had the opportunity to view first-hand. From Japanese tea gardens to curiosity shops, Pasadena in the early 1900s exhibited all of the signs of having succumbed to the …Read More
JULIA MORGAN (1872-1957) WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF THE GREENE BROTHERS, and one of the few native-born architects working in California in the early decades of the twentieth century. It has been speculated that it was this attribute that lent her a greater sensitivity to the contours of its geography, the subtle variations in its climate, and local flora and fauna. Her architectural career spanned 47 years, during which she was …Read More
Arts & Crafts in Pennsylvania [Part two] by Anne Mallek My first exposure to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright was as a naïve 12 year old on vacation with my family for two weeks in the seaside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, the former bohemian artists’ community and home to writers like George Sterling and Robinson Jeffers, and architects such as Charles Greene. The house we rented belonged to friends of …Read More
ARTS & CRAFTS IN PENNSYLVANIA – Part One by Anne Mallek ~ I had been to Pennsylvania just over 20 years ago, driving with my family on the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway from Virginia to Gettysburg and through Amish country, but I had never heard of Fallingwater, and I remained in relative ignorance of the great and very different cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia until recently. The annual Arts and Crafts …Read More