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California Los Angeles / MAP OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES Including Tourist 1951
MAP OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES, Including Tourist Guide to Downtown Theatre and Shopping District. Author: [California – Los Angeles] Title: MAP OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES, Including Tourist Guide to Downtown Theatre and Shopping District Publication: Los Angeles: Mitock & Sons, circa 1951. Description: Postwar block map of Downtown Los Angeles, which is framed with detailed lists of night clubs, restaurants, motion picture studios, consular offices, hotels, beaches, and other information for visitors to the City of Angels. The verso features a motor road map of the city and a chronology of important events in the history of Los Angeles County. Printed in dark green on a 22″ x 17″ sheet of white paper that folds to 4 ¼ x 7 ¼. Some mild toning to the outer panels, with just a hint of edgewear; otherwise very good. Scarce, OCLC locates no holdings. Established in 1981, Johnson Rare Books & Archives offers a wide array of materials from fine first editions to holographic letters, vernacular photography, archives, and other cultural resources. Our bricks and mortar location in downtown Covina, The Book Shop, is located about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. The shop is open six days a week and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian. As proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), we uphold our association’s code of ethics. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
Hans BURKHARDT Original Pastel Painting Framed Abstract Expressionism California
An electrifying painting by the listed California master painter Hans Burkhardt (1904 – 1994). Originally born in Switzerland, the artist emigrated to New York at the age of twenty. While in NYC, Burkhardt became one of the cutting edge pioneers of the New York school with De Kooning and Gorky. In 1937, the artist moved to the Los Angeles area which would become his home for the remainder of his life. Many believe that Burkhardt created some of the most powerful examples of abstract expressionism. Most coveted are his pastel paintings of abstract figures done during the 1960s. His works are in the permanent collections of many museums including the Guggenheim, The Whitney, Hirshhorn, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He retired as a professor emeritus of art at Cal State Northridge. The master artist passed away in Los Angeles, California, in 1994. Image size is approximately 16.5 inches by 22 inches. Original signature, bottom center, along with the date of 65. Done in pastels on paper. Framed dimensions are approximately 22.50 inches by 28.50 inches. Professionally framed, cloth mat and red inner liner; and. Plexi glass protects the image. Colors are vibrant and unfaded. You will not be disappointed in this powerful work. Rarely are original paintings by this artist found on the secondary market at a reasonable price. The frame and cloth mat are likely original to the painting and show their ages. Frame has a number of scuffs, nicks and scratches. Original backing paper still primarily intact though tears in places. The artwork has not been examined out of its frame. There is no reserve price. The boxed dimensions are 28 inches by 36 inches by 5.5 inches. Weight is 12.5 lbs. Thank you for considering this item!
Ca 1929 $20? Downey, California? Pmg Very Fine 25 Very Rare
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA. PMG VERY FINE 25. PLEASE CHECK OUT THE CLOSE-UP PHOTOS AND DECIDE WHAT ITS WORTH TO YOU. THE PICTURED ITEM IS THE EXACT ITEM YOU WILL RECEIVE, WE STRIVE TO TAKE THE MOST ACCURATE PHOTOS OF OUR ITEMS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE GRADING IS VERY SUBJECTIVE SO WE LEAVE IT TO YOU TO DETERMINE THE CONDITION AND GRADE OF THE ITEM BASED ON THE PICTURES PROVIDED. PLEASE DON’T BE SURPRISED IF THE ACTUAL NOTE IS MUCH BETTER THAN IN THE PHOTOS.
Robbert FLICK East of Lancaster, California, 1981 / VINTAGE Silver / SIGNED
Robbert Flick Dutch b. East of Lancaster, along Highway 14, California, SV 044/81. Provenance: Private Collection, NY; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; David & Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Chicago; Landweber Artists, Los Angeles. Vintage gelatin silver print, printed 1982. Signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso. Image size: 13 5/8 x 17 5/8 inches. Print size: 16 x 20 inches. Condition: Excellent; some slight cockling on the left margin, NOT affecting the image; this print has been housed in its original portfolio case since its acquisition. A similar print is in the following collections. Cleveland Museum of Art; LA County Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum; University of Iowa and more. Robbert Flick was born in 1938 and grew up in Amersfoort, Holland. He received a BA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and both an MA and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to being a Getty Scholar, Flick is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship (2000). In 2004 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized his first major retrospective, Trajectories: The Photographic Work of Robbert Flick. Other exhibitions of his work have been held at the International Center for Photography, New York; National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Other series include L. Diary (1967-72), Midwest Diary (1971-76), L. Flick is a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California.
Southern California 1924 Highway Map San Diego Los Angeles Security Bank promo
Southern California 1924 Highway Map San Diego Los Angeles Security Bank promo. (Americana, Travel, Tourism, California, Southern California, San Diego, Los Angeles, Road Maps). Highway Map of Southern California: Paved Roads and Highways of Central California and Roads of San Diego County. Published 1924, United States for Security Bank by Clason Map Co. Made by Don McLain from official and personal surveys. An early bank promotional automobile road map. Publisher’s paper wrappers folded into panels, printed on both sides. Opens to a very large environs of Los Angeles map. The key for this map notes paved roads, fair or dirt roads, poor roads which are “doubtful for automobiles”, hiking trails, electric rail lines, steam lines. Item is not new or in “new” condition. Paper gently age worn, slight rubbing, remains overall clean and attractive as a fragile survival. Still attractive on the shelf. The scarce pamphlet displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this scarce ephemeral item survives. 8 3/4″ H x 3 3/4″ W.
ANNUAL REPORT of California SURVEYOR-GENERAL 1863 Post Gold Rush County Reports
ANNUAL REPORT of California SURVEYOR-GENERAL 1863 Post Gold Rush County Reports. TITLE: Annual Report of the Surveyor-General of the State of California for The Year 1862. Houghton, Surveyor-General of California, et al. PUBLISHER: Sacramento, California: Benjamin P. DESCRIPTION: 148 pages, folding chart. CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Some peeling to spine. Pages clean, except for a couple of pages with light foxing. Chart properly folded with a small stub tear. Want to see the mother of all land rushes underway? Read the reports from the various California county surveyors touting their bounty, counting their cattle, and bickering over boundaries (in the two appendices). A report to Leland Stanford, Governor of California in the 12th year of statehood, compiled from correspondence by county surveyors and assessors, as well as state civil engineers. State and County Boundaries. Canals, and Drainage of the Sacramento Valley. An additional report on Irrigation by Civil Engineer Calvin Brown serves to detail the growing realization of the state’s unique climate, and its unusual dependence on seasonal water flow for agricultural abundance in the absence of a cold winter. Reports on Railway construction and Flood mitigation round out the statewide portion. Inally, two appendices include reports by each county’s surveyor and assessor giving insight into the state’s resources and the degree to which agriculture has progressed and survey/boundary issues have been resolved… Very readable and fascinating. Each county official was required by state law to report, but some submitted a short, very subjective descriptive letter, and others submitted full tables of statistics. Others, such as Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino submitted no letters, though some of their data appears on statewide tabulations. San Diego’s data appears nowhere. Is this a wartime measure, or is it a matter of insignificant population or agricultural yield that keep the Southern counties out of the Surveyor-General’s report? Listing and template services provided by inkFrog.
Flavorite Brand VINTAGE San Fernando, California Orange Crate Label 1930 Genuine
This uncommon vintage 1930 orange crate label depicts two fairies with butterfly wings injecting flavor into oranges growing in a grove of trees at nighttime against a backdrop of fireflies. “Flavorite” is obviously a combination of “flavor” and “favorite”. Some of the new labels that emerged in the Advertising Age of California Orange Crate Labels (1920 – 1935) reflected the Art Deco design movement. At its best, this art treatment created a feeling of modern elegance. On labels of the 1920s and early 1930s, it was combined with innovative color treatments made possible because of the development of new printing ink formulations and sophisticated printing registration techniques. The result was a succession of attractive new label designs such as Flavorite. Through its use of stylized imagery Flavorite successfully conveys its advertising message by using an unusual design theme and color treatment in conjunction with a prominent display of oranges as an integral part of the design. McClelland & Jay T. Flavorite Brand label printed by Western Lithographic Company, Los Angeles, CA, #130 Used by the American Fruit Growers, Inc. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA The packing house of American Fruit Growers was at 2160 East Seventh Street, Los Angeles.
ANNUAL REPORT of California SURVEYOR-GENERAL 1863 Post Gold Rush County Reports
ANNUAL REPORT of California SURVEYOR-GENERAL 1863 Post Gold Rush County Reports. TITLE: Annual Report of the Surveyor-General of the State of California for The Year 1862. Houghton, Surveyor-General of California, et al. PUBLISHER: Sacramento, California: Benjamin P. DESCRIPTION: 148 pages, folding chart. CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Some peeling to spine. Pages clean, except for a couple of pages with light foxing. Chart properly folded with a small stub tear. Want to see the mother of all land rushes underway? Read the reports from the various California county surveyors touting their bounty, counting their cattle, and bickering over boundaries (in the two appendices). A report to Leland Stanford, Governor of California in the 12th year of statehood, compiled from correspondence by county surveyors and assessors, as well as state civil engineers. State and County Boundaries. Canals, and Drainage of the Sacramento Valley. An additional report on Irrigation by Civil Engineer Calvin Brown serves to detail the growing realization of the state’s unique climate, and its unusual dependence on seasonal water flow for agricultural abundance in the absence of a cold winter. Reports on Railway construction and Flood mitigation round out the statewide portion. Inally, two appendices include reports by each county’s surveyor and assessor giving insight into the state’s resources and the degree to which agriculture has progressed and survey/boundary issues have been resolved… Very readable and fascinating. Each county official was required by state law to report, but some submitted a short, very subjective descriptive letter, and others submitted full tables of statistics. Others, such as Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino submitted no letters, though some of their data appears on statewide tabulations. San Diego’s data appears nowhere. Is this a wartime measure, or is it a matter of insignificant population or agricultural yield that keep the Southern counties out of the Surveyor-General’s report? Listing and template services provided by inkFrog.
RARE Old Early California Arts & Crafts Landscape Print, Redwoods DOOLITTLE
This is a fantastic and RARE Old Early California Arts & Crafts Landscape Print, Aquatint and Etching on Paper, by early California printmaker Harold Lukens Doolittle 1883 – 1974. This artwork depicts a delightful, forested landscape scene of tall, finely detailed redwood trees in Northern California. This print is from an edition of unknown size, and likely dates to the 1930’s. Titled: “Redwood Giants” in the lower left corner and signed: Harold L. Doolittle in the lower right corner. Approximately 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches including frame. Actual visible artwork is approximately 8 3/4 x 10 inches. Good condition for nearly a century of age, with a few faint scuffs to the surface of the paper please see photos. Acquired from an old collection in Los Angeles, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! 1883 – Pasadena, California. 1974 – Temple City, California. Harold Lukens Doolittle (1883 – 1974) was active/lived in California. Harold Doolittle is known for Printmaker-landscape. Harold Doolittle (American 1883 – 1974) was born in Pasadena, California. He was an etcher and civil engineer who studied at Cornell University and Throop Polytechnic Institute. He worked for many years as chief design engineer for the Southern California Edison Company. He was a bit of a Renaissance man, working in all the graphic processes including photography and collotype, but he is most noted for his aquatints. Doolittle built his own press, mezzotint rocker and preferred to make his own linen paper. He was a member of the Pasadena Society of Artists, Chicago Society of Etchers, Society of American Graphic Artists, California Society of Etchers and the California Print Makers. He served as president of the California Print Makers in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Doolittle is represented in the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, California State Library, Dayton Art Institute and Brooks Memorial Gallery. Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store. Etcher, lithographer, Harold Lukens Doolittle was born in Pasadena, CA on May 4, 1883. Doolittle studied art at the Throop Institute and civil engineering at Cornell University. Largely self-taught as an artist, he is known primarily for his aquatints. He was a mechanical engineer for Southern California Edison for 30 years and, upon retirement, continued etching on his hand-made rag paper. He died in Temple City, CA on Jan. Member: American Fine Art Association San Francisco Art Association Chicago Society of Etchers; Society of American Etchers California Society of Etchers; Calif. Prairie Makers Pasadena Society of Artists. Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1919-20 California Society of Etchers, 1920 In: CSL; AIC; LACMA; LA Public Library; Library of Congress; San Diego Museum. AAA 1919-29; WWC 1929; WWAA 1936-62; SCA; California Design, 1910.