Although the negative sleeve attributes this work in this image to Jock Peters, other images in this negative group represent the Bachelors haberdashery by J. R. Davidson.
Overhead view of The Bachelors haberdashery from the back of the shop, designed by Julius Ralph Davidson in an art deco style "featuring panels of Makassar ebony set into aluminum frames, brown and tan carpeting laid in strips..." (Christopher Long, "The Rise of California Modern Design, 1930-41." in ed. Wendy Kaplan, California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way (2012), 65.
View of a living room with a sofa, upholstered chair, tables, fireplace, and framed pictures on the wallpapered walls. Possibly designed by Jacob (Jock) Detlof Peters or J. R. Davidson.
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel.
Detail view of art deco cabinet with wood paneling and aluminum strips in The Bachelors haberdashery, designed by Julius Ralph Davidson. Men's brief cases and satchels are on top of the cabinet and a cactus (?) in a pot stands next to the cabinet, in front of venetian blinds functioning as a room divider. The carpeting is composed of brown and tan strips.
“Apparition over Los Angeles,” (1932) presents Sister Aimee McPherson, founder of the Four-Square Church in Echo Park, Los Angeles, in the sky flanked by her mother, also nude, and her husband, above angels wearing high hats, with the Angelus Temple in Echo Park below.
View of Barse Miller (right) engaged in plein-air painting selecting paint from a lidded box on a table, in a field facing a shoreline waterway. Two women are also painting at easels and two other women are seated on the ground.
Stanley Reckless was born Stanley Zbytniewski. In 1913 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), studied under Daniel Garber. In 1915, 1916 he was awarded 2 Cresson Traveling Scholarships, and traveled to Paris, enrolling briefly at the Academie Julian. In 1920 he moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania and started exhibiting at PAFA, the National Academy of Design, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1924 he settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he painted the landscape and shared a studio with Charles Hargens. In 1930 he moved to California where he painted portraits of members of the film industry. He co-founded the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
Photograph of artist Stanley Reckless seated on a bench on a balcony of his home overlooking Silver Lake. He holds a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He is dressed in light colored trousers, a white shirt and light colored tie.
Photographic portrait of artist Stanley Reckless seated in his studio wearing light-colored trousers, a white shirt and light-colored tie, and holding a drink and a cigarette. Visible behind him are 3 paintings on the wall, and the backs of 2 paintings leaning against the wall.
“Apparition over Los Angeles,” (1932) presents Sister Aimee McPherson, founder of the Four-Square Church in Echo Park, Los Angeles, nude in the sky flanked by her mother, also nude, and her husband, above angels, one in a high hat presiding over money-bag shaped clouds, with the Angelus Temple in Echo Park below. The painting is in a frame.
Interior view of a room in the home of William Conselman, perhaps a den or family room, with a sofa and French doors providing access to a patio. A dining or breakfast room is visible through an open doorway.
Carlos Vierra (1876 – 1937) studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute (now part of the San Francisco Art Institute) under Gottardo Piazzoni in the 1890s, and also studied illustration in New York. He was the first resident artist in New Mexico and one of the first 3 members of the Santa Fe Art Colony. He was a strong advocate for preserving landmark buildings in New Mexico and promoted a modern architectural style now called the Pueblo Revival Style architecture that reflects this historic architectural heritage.
Photograph of the artist Carlos Vierra holding a palette and paint brushes as he works on a painting. He is probably at his Santa Fe home (at 1002 Old Pecos Trail).
Comical photograph of Will Harrison seated in a wicker chair with a dog in his lap and with his wife, Evelyn (probably) standing next to him with studding in her dress, and another man behind the drape holding a rifle.
Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson was a poet and author of literary criticism, editorial comments and other prose who lived in New Mexico from 1922 to his death in 1968 and who was a major part of the new Mexico literary scene. He was also the publisher of Laughing Horse literary magazine, printed on a small hand press, which he started with others while a student at UC Berkeley and continued in New Mexico. In 1953 he took up painting and drawing as well.
Interior view of a bedroom in the Pueblo Revival Style home of Carlos Vierra, with a ceiling of massive wooden beams and furnished with a chair, a bed and an area rug, and with a fireplace in the corner.
This photograph appears on page 24 of a catalog of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. which is dated to 1933 or later (because it contains a reference to Radio City Music Hall which opened in December 1932).
This photograph appears on page 24 of a catalog of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. which is dated to 1933 or later (because it contains a reference to Radio City Music Hall which opened in December 1932).
View of the materials on a table used to create a photographic advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolates: chocolate bon-bons on a wooden board and materials used to create the backdrop. The backdrop with the word "uniform" and the line of profile women making chocolates is created using 2 props: a line of women in profile cut out of a piece of paper and the work "Uniform" created with letters applied to a plate of glass. Both items are arranged so that they create a gray shadow of a piece of paper when illuminated. The wooden handle of a tool (hammer?) and 2 small boxes of photographic supplies are in the foreground. The finished result is visible in image ark no. 21198/zz002j907c .
Setting the scene on a stage set for a Ghirardelli chocolate advertisement, a giggling little girl stands in a metal wash tub wearing a raincoat and rain hat as a man stands on a stool pours water on her from a watering can.
F. E. Olds was a manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Frank Ellsworth Olds in Los Angeles, in the early 1900s. The company made brass instruments, especially trombones, cornets, and trumpets. Olds was joined by his son Reginald Birdsall (R.B.) Olds in 1920. The company was purchased by Chicago Musical Instruments after World War II, and went out of business in 1979. [
Stoneware cup resting on a collage with photographs of faces, resting on a "Santa Fe Patties" cigar box. The same cup was used in a Ghirardelli's chocolate advertisement (see image ark no. 21198/zz002j908w)
Vintage advertisements posted online for Mission Dry Sparkling beverages showing these bottle labels date to 1930 and identify the California Crushed Fruit Corporation as the manufacturer.