12 January 2025

 

Christina Quarles, In 24 Days Tha Sun’ll Set at 7pm, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 77" x 96"

 

While the aforementioned paintings are hanging in there, Christina Quarles lost most of her personal collection of her works in a fire last April, and her current residence in Altadena has been completely destroyed.

08 January 2025

Two of Frank Lloyd Wright's Mayan Revival houses are in the evacuation zones

 

 The 1923 Samuel Freeman house is in the mandatory evacuation zone from the Runyon Canyon fire

 

The Millard House, also 1923, in the Level 2 evacuation warning zone from the Eaton fire

Art just outside of the Level 2 evacuation warning for the Eaton fire (Norton Simon Museum)

(LA Times update)

     Chamuda, 9th century, Rajasthan, marble


Raphael, Madonna and Child with Book, c. 1502-03, oil on canvas

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Reclining Nude, c. 1713-17, oil on canvas


Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, The Abduction of Psyche by Zephyrus to the Palace of Eros, 1808-1820, oil on canvas


Édouard Manet, The Ragpicker, c. 1865-1870, oil on canvas


Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier), August 1888, oil on canvas



Georges Braque, Artist and Model, 1939, oil on canvas


Barbara Hepworth, Assembly of Sea Forms, 1972, marble

Sam Francis, Basel Mural, 1956-58, oil on canvas


07 January 2025