Esoteric Survey

An oasis of California Design is tucked away on the third floor of the Art of the Americas Building at LACMA. 
Richard Neutra, La Gardo Tackett and Walter Lamb
Richard Neutra, 1941 Chair from Channel Heights Housing Project, San Pedro
John Kapel, Greta Grossman and Ray & Charles Eames
As far as Eames, it doesn't get much rarer than this Evans prototype from 1944-45. 
They paid a pretty penny for it too. It was sold through LAMA in 2000 for $107,000
5-2-7 bolt pattern!  Of course I checked underneath. 
Richard Neutra, 1931/1941
David Cressey
Monster Gertrud & Otto Natzler
Harrison McIntosh x 2
John Mclaughlin
LACMA will be having a solo exhibition of his work, beginning on November 13.  Details: John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction

LACMA has a small but mighty Four Abstract Classicists exhibition up.  All the paintings are part of their permanent collection.
This John McLaughlin might be my favorite painting ever.
Karl Benjamin, John McLaughlin and Frederick Hammersley
Frederick Hammersley, Lorser Feitelson and Frederick Hammersley x 2
John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson and Karl Benjamin
A super sweet Frederick Hammersley
Four Abstract Classicists catalog (1959)
John McLaughlin (1898-1976)
Karl Benjamin (1925-2012)
Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978)
Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009)
Big deal modern gallery--Miro, Nuguchi... 
Erich Dieckmann chair (Germany, 1930s) This is proof that I look at non-California pieces that were made before the 1940s. 

Isamu Noguchi, Coronos, Bronze OMG!
John Mclaughlin with Claes Oldenburg pool balls in the foreground
Donald Judd "I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does."—Donald Judd
Donald Judd
Donald Judd
Lorser Feitelson  This is from 1936. Amazing.
John Mason
Edward Kienholz “We didn’t talk the art out. We talked about where we were going to get six dollars so we could buy gas for a car  to go to the Valley and get drunk… I don’t know that I’ve ever talked to Bob Irwin about art in my life.”—Ed Kienholz
Richard Diebenkorn That electrical outlet pisses me off.
Yayoi Kusama Way before the LV handbags
John Chamberlain

Pacific Standard Time at the Getty. I went onthe last day of the exhibit, February 5th.  I guess there was a big football game going on that day too.  The Central Garden, by Robert Irwin
This is the PST nerve center.   It's set up like a war room to plan your attack on all the PST exhibits.
# 8, 1966, John McLaughlin.  The Marilynn and Carl Thoma Collection. Image courtesy of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York Photo: Getty Archives Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970 The first gallery in Crosscurrents is a mix off hard-edge paintings, like the John McLaughlin above and  big clay pieces by Peter Voulkos, John Mason and the Henry Takemoto pot below.
Here he is with his pot at the studio of John Mason and Peter Voulkos,  Los Angeles, ca. 1959. Image courtesy of Henry Takemoto Photo: Getty Archives
Avocado Mountain, 1959, Ken Price.  James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles.  Permission courtesy Ken Price Studio