All the joy that love can bring
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Kenneth Dierck, ceramic relief sculpture, Primavera, 1965
If you’ve ever seen the movie, The Sandpiper, you will recall Elizabeth Taylor playing an artist living at the beach at Big Sur. She spends her time making abstract seascape kinds of paintings. Her studio is cluttered with driftwood-like art. It sounds like fun to live at the beach on the California coast, feel moody, and collect driftwood. It must have been a wonderful time in 1965 when poor artists could buy beach houses and wander the dunes. In 1954, the Pasadena Art Museum held the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating design in California. Graphic design wasn’t included, and there seemed to be a prevalence of handcrafted ceramics, and woody furniture. It was all very natural in a California eco-friendly pre-hippie way. Of course, now I would love to own some of these items. Or I could move to the beach and begin making ceramics and driftwood mobiles.
Donald Gerds, Teresa Woodward, Jean Ray Laury, Ruth Law, Gere Kavanaugh, toys, 1964
Evelyn Ackerman, finger puppets, 1964
Mabel Hutchison, wood gallery doors, 1964
Ellamarie Wooley, enamel panel, Summer, 1965
Svetozar Radakovich, child death trap, 1965
Joyce Aiken, Jean Ray Laury, headboards, 1965
Kay Whitcomb, enamel on copper panel, Le Roi I, 1965
