Galka Scheyer was an extremely important figure for American art and architecture. Very much like painter (and Marcel Duchamp-collaborator) Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952), the critical early apostle for European Modernist art back East in New York City after 1913. And Scheyer's East Coast doppelgänger, an Alsatian Baroness, the painter Hilla von Rebay (1890 - 1967) who benefited from a longer life and a...
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“I found a building site. . .10 minutes from Hollywood. . .a thousand feet above sea level, that is to say above Hollywood and it is still a part of Hollywood. . .on the peak of a mountain with a view to the south where Los Angeles and Hollywood lie like an ocean; a view to the east where one can see the snow-covered Sierras; a view to the west where one can see the ocean and the fairytale island...
Crosby Doe: "Like art, architecture inspires me. The uplifting experience of great architecture compels me to want to share the gifts it imparts to our daily lives. Each significant house holds the power to enhance and even change the lives of those who live in it, or even just happen to walk by. When we look around carefully at our built environment, it would be easy to become depressed - so much is...