Esoteric Survey

I'm not a big fan of all this holiday mumbo jumbo, but I know a good cause when I see it. The Museum of California Design (MOCAD) has sent out an annual pledge request. An institution that sends out a holiday card with a Woolley enamel on the cover is the kind of place you should be donating to.
You can make a tax-deductible donation to the museum here.
If you still haven't seen the MOCAD CALIFORNIA'S DESIGNING WOMEN: 1896–1986 exhibit at The Autry Museum in Los Angeles, you better hurry up.

You mean if I call the number I can buy thatWoolley mural? It's 12 ft x 36 ft. Where would I even put it? Yeah, probably not. The mural belongs to the Mingei.  Here's the scoop.

Read the LA Times article on MOCAD's California's Designing Women, 1896-1986' at the Autry, here. Ellamarie Woolley "Twice Over" - This is one of the things I lent to the exhibition. Image: LA Times/ MOCAD

Muriel Coleman iron room divider Image: LA Times/ MOCAD
Wilmer James ceramics Image: LA Times/ Me

Elizabeth Madley Source: Enamel Arts Foundation
Wing Ng Source: Enamel Arts Foundation

Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley  Source: Enamel Arts Foundation

Barney Reid Source: Me


Phyllis Wallen Source: Objects USA

Ellamarie Woolley enamel plaque

Librarians getting their card catalog in order with an 11' x 17' Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley enamel and copper mural behind them. The library calls it a "Tree of Life" mural, but the title given to it by the Woolleys is "Wisdom."  It was made made in 1960 and was given as a gift to the library by  Mrs. Frank Blake, Mrs. Aubrey Wardman, Miss Mary Sorensen and Miss Katherine Sorensen. Source: Whittier Public Library Historical Photograph Collection
The cool librarians and card catalogs have all been replaced by black plastic boxes. Maybe they were afraid of ending up on here?
It's really all about the details.
Source: Whittier Public Library Historical Photograph Collection Photo: Julius Shulman, 1959
Source: Whittier Public Library Historical Photograph Collection Photo: Julius Shulman, 1959

Source: Whittier Public Library Historical Photograph Collection Photo: Julius Shulman, 1959


Source: Whittier Public Library Historical Photograph Collection Photo: Julius Shulma…

The house that Sam built at the house that Henry Huntington built.
That's a good one.
Parts
The sit on a Sam Maloof chair ride was popular.
Cork top desk


Karl Benjamin painting above a Maloof settee 

Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley enamel plaque
Woolley box

Kay Sekimachi weavings and bowls
Kay Sekimachi
Ames enamel
PST Tea?
China, Made in USA
The gardens aren't bad either
Bertoia sonambient

Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley "Reflective Sun" at the Mingei International Museum Leave it to Hampton to uncover this one deep inside storage at the San Diego Civic Center.   He wrote about too. Check it out on Culture Lust
San Diego Civic Theater, ca. 1964.  Photo: Courtesy of the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture via Culture Lust

Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley San Diego Civic Theater Mural - 1965
Pacificana-1963