1960-1970 Young and Young 1997

Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182 pp., 1960s

     " . . . In the sixties the [Canyon School] PTA Cultural Arts Committee purchased and framed fifty prints by famous artists to be displayed in the classsrooms, with volunteer mothers acting as docents . . . The last Art Show was held in the 1950s, but the traditional Fiesta remained . . ."

     "537 West Rustic . . . Built high on the hillside in 1924 by John and Grace Fraser as a one-room house. Living with them was Grace's mother, Mrs. Westover, a pioneer who came to the West in a covered wagon. The house was purchased in the mid-1930s by photographer Brett Weston, whose father, Edward Weston, lived nearby. Brett installed a darkroom, where his brother Cole learned photography under Brett's tutelage. The house was sold in 1960 to Brett's friend, cabinentmaker Gerald McCabe, and his wife, Vicki, who enlarged and improved it in 1965 . . . " p. 142

     "334 Amalfi . . . The house was purchased by Neal and Jean Oxenhandler in 1962 [He a French professor at UCLA, and she an artist] . . .

     "Artist Richard Diebenkorn moved to this house in the canyon from Berkeley in 1966 and rented Sam Francis's studio in Ocean Park. His previous style, which had been termed representational, returned to the abstract in his Ocean Park paintings. He used the experience of driving down the hill and along the Pacific Coast Highway each morning as a source of inspiration-bright parallel bands of color suggested by the sunlit stripes of path, beach, ocean, sky and grass he saw along the way. In 1988 he left and moved to Healdsburg.

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