<p>Few people know that the Gardena High School student body has what is a preeminent art collection of Western landscapes, the product of an innovative collaboration between the students and community that lasted for almost 40 years. Each year from 1919 to 1956, Gardena High School seniors, following the recommendations of student art committees, purchased one or two works of art as class gifts. Artists gave the students price breaks, and the entire Gardena community joined in year-long fundraising drives to make the purchases possible. The goals of this hundredth-anniversary publication and exhibition are to document the remarkable history of community collaboration that formed the Gardena High School Art Collection and to preserve the collection for future generations.</p>

GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Garden

Susan M. Anderson

<p>A Jackson Pollock in three dimensions is one critic s unforgettable description of a piece by Claire Falkenstein, whose life and work spanned the 20th century. The American artist and teacher was born in Oregon in 1908 and after living in San Francisco, Paris and New York died in Los Angeles in 1997. This lavishly produced book is amazingly the first monograph ever on the work of this ceaselessly inventive artist. Falkenstein called her sculptures, paintings and prints structures, she also designed furniture, fountains, screens, wallpaper and jewelry. A fresh look at her multifaceted work collected by major institutions ranging from MoMA to the tate Britain places Falkenstein in the company of better known peers and further credits her explorations as prototypical of the work of post minimal and contemporary artists.</p>

Claire Falkenstein

Michael, Duncan

Maren Henderson

Ram Publications

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GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Garden

Claire Falkenstein