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Plein Air was a style of painting descended from French Impressionism, the French term for "open air" indicating the artist painted outdoors.
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, a desire for the handmade craftsmanship of wares and decorative items begin to influence design philosophies in Great Britain. This movement spread throughout Europe and then to North America and became what w...
Originally, Garvanza was one of the many sectioned plots of the Rancho San Rafael and was mainly a collection of garbanzo bean fields - hence its original name "Garbanzo."
By the turn of the 20th Century the Arroyo Seco had fallen into disrepute, the stream and the area surrounding it often viewed as a literal, stagnant…
At the turn of the 20th century, Sycamore Grove (known today as Sycamore Grove Park) was its own little town with its own rules. Telling someone you were off to "the Grove" could prompt either knowing winks or horrified gasps, as the area was then a th...
Perched on the hills of the Arroyo Seco, the Southwest Museum opened its doors to the public in 1914. It's no exaggeration to say that it was the Getty of its era, and the city celebrated the Southwest Museum's arrival with good reason.
Charles Fletcher Lummis is remembered as a self-made man of action whose life was shaped by a combination of an acute wanderlust and a deep belief in the power of his own two hands. Lummis' passion for Southwestern culture gave voice and identity to th...
After purchasing two adjacent lots next to the Arroyo Seco, Charles Lummis began the construction of El Alisal - "Place of the Sycamore Trees." Built over a twelve year period ending in 1910, Lummis would construct the entire structure with his own han...
In preparation for the upcoming Highland Park and the Arroyo Seco installment of Departures, we asked the community to contribute what they thought was culturally or historically significant to the area. The following highlights just a few of the point...
Richard Duardo has been referred to as the "Warhol of the West," he has established a name for himself by producing prints of pop-culture icons.
California's history has consistently been one of re-invention and simulacra--an environmental space where meaning and geography are replaced or proceeded by symbols of what it was or should be.
When Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona was published in November 1884, the effects of the Mexican-American war were clearly palpable in the cobblestone streets of the pueblo.