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'''[[Art]]''' is skill used to produce an [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] result. ''[[Arts]]'' or ''the arts'' encompasses [[visual arts]], [[performing arts]], [[language arts]], and [[culinary arts]]. Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree. The term ''art'' also refers to the physical forms produced or performed using those skills, such as a sculpted figure, a poem, or a piece of music. |
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The '''Ramsay-Durfee Estate''', also known as '''Durfee Mansion''', '''Durfee House''' or '''Villa Maria''', is a historic [[Tudorbethan architecture|Tudor Revival]] mansion on Western Avenue in [[Los Angeles, California]]. It has been designated a Historic Cultural Monument and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. |
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to '''art''': |
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==Architecture== |
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== Essence of art == |
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Completed in 1908, the three-story, 42-room mansion was designed by [[Frederick Roehrig|Frederick Louis Roehrig]]. Roehrig also planned the landscape gardening and layout of the grounds.<ref name=English/> The mansion is located on a {{convert|2.8|acre|m2|sing=on}} site that also includes a formal garden and carriage house with chauffeur's quarters.<ref name=Board/><ref name=Mansion/> When the house was completed, the ''Los Angeles Times'' published a full-page article accompanied by numerous photographs. The ''Times'' called it "among the finest homes in Los Angeles" and one of architect Roehrig's "best efforts." The ''Times'' described the exterior of the mansion as follows:<blockquote>"The house is distinctly of the typical English domestic architecture. The exterior is of stone and half timber and plaster finish, while the roof is of slate. It is probably the finest example of the purely English type of dwelling in this city."<ref name=English>{{cite news|title=English Domestic Architecture Employed in Designing Handsome West Adams Heights Home|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1908-09-27}}</ref></blockquote>The ''Times'' also made note of the grand staircase describing it as "the stair builder's art in mahogany" lit by a large group of art glass windows.<ref name=English/> The third floor was almost entirely taken up by a {{convert|25|ft|m|sing=on}} by {{convert|99|ft|m|sing=on}} ballroom with a large brick fireplace and an open truss and exposed beam ceilings.<ref name=English/> |
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==History== |
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* [[Aesthetics]] (a philosophical field related to art) |
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The house was built for a wealthy lumberman, William E. Ramsay, who died in 1909 -- shortly after the mansion was completed.<ref name=Death/> His widow continued to live in the mansion until her death in 1916.<ref name=Death>{{cite news|title=Social Leader Is Called by Death|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1916-07-28}}</ref> |
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* [[Artist]] |
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* [[Work of art]] |
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In the early 1920s, the property was purchased for the unheard of price of $105,000 by William G. and Nellie McGaughey Durfee. Mr. Durfee was a horse-racing devotee, and Mrs. Durfee was the sheltered dauthter of a Figueroa Street millionaire.<ref name=Then>{{cite book|author=Harry Anderson and Mary Wormley|title=Historic West Adams: Then and Now|publisher=West Adams Heritage Association|date=1987}}</ref> Their marriage had been a scandal reported on in the newspapers, as Mr. Durfee had divorced the mother of his two children in 1910 and married Nellie in 1911.<ref name=Then/> During the 1920s, the house was a gathering place for the motion picture business, and its grand staircase and ornately-paneled rooms were popular filming locations.<ref name=Mansion/> Mr. Durfee died in 1927, reportedly from food poisoning while on a fashing trip in the Pacific Northwest.<ref name=Then/> Nellie remained at the house until her death in 1976, reportedly living as a recluse.<ref name=Mansion/> Columnist [[Jack Smith (columnist)|Jack Smith]] toured the Durfee residence in 1976 and found the house virtually unchanged from the time of Mr. Durfee's death 50 years earlier. Though Mr. Durfee had died during [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], the [[wine cellar]] remained untouched and full of vintage wines dating to the 1890s and 1900s as well as 183 bottles of vintage whisky. Mr. Durfee's wide-brimmed felt hats and tweed suits were still hanging in his closet.<ref name=Smith/> Smith noted that Mrs. Durfee died at age 99, "wasted and blind," in an upstairs bedroom -- "alone with her companion-housekeeper, her cat, her ostrich feathers, her unopened boxes of silk stockings, her sculptures and paintings and Oriental rugs."<ref name=Smith>{{cite news|author=Jack Smith|title=Among Her Souvenirs|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1976-07-21}}</ref> |
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== Types of art == |
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In 1978, the [[Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God|Brothers of St. John of God]] bought the property from the Estate of Nellie Durfee for $470,000.<ref name=Mansion/> The purchaser was a Roman Catholic religious order that operated 260 hospitals which purchased the property to serve as its western headquarters.<ref name=Mansion>{{cite news|title=Catholic Order Purchases Historic Durfee Mansion for Headquarters|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1978-03-12}}</ref> In 1982, the house was opened to the public for the first time in its history for a benefit dinner to support [[KUSC]] radio.<ref>{{cite news|author=Marylouise Oates|title=KUSC Opens Up the Durfee Gates|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1982-06-14}}</ref> |
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* [[Applied art]] |
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* [[Conceptual art]] |
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* [[Fine art]] |
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In 1980, the property was designated (under the name "Villa Maria") as a Historic Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as "a distinguished example of Tudor Revival architecture of the early 20th Century."<ref name=Board>{{cite news|title=Heritage Board Cites Villa Maria|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1980-01-04}}</ref> It was also listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1989. |
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* '''[[Literature|Literary art]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic literature topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Poetry]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic poetry topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Fiction]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic fiction topics]]'' |
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* '''[[Performing arts]]''' |
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** '''[[Dance]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic dance topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Music]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic music topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Theater]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic theatre topics]]'' |
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* '''[[Visual arts]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic visual arts topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Cinematography]]''' and '''[[filmmaking]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic film topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Plastic arts]]''' |
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*** '''[[Architecture]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic architecture topics]]'' |
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*** '''[[Drawing]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic drawing topics]]'' |
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*** '''[[Painting]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic painting topics]]'' |
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*** '''[[Sculpture]]''' - ''see also [[List of basic sculpture topics]]'' |
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** '''[[Video installation]]''' |
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*[[List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles]] |
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* [[List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles]] |
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* [[Abstract art]] |
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* [[Erotic art]] |
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**[[Monster]] |
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*[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]] |
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**[[Techno-thriller|Techno-Thriller]] |
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*[[Western (genre)|Western]] |
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== History of art == |
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{{main|History of art|Timeline of art}} |
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* [[Art history]] |
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* [[History of music]] |
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* [[History of painting]] |
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* [[History of photography]] |
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* [[History of poetry]] |
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* [[History of sculpture]] |
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{{nowrap begin}} [[International Gothic]] - [[Renaissance]] ([[Early Renaissance painting|Early]]) <small>(14th)</small>{{·w}} [[Mannerism]] <small>(16th)</small>{{·w}} [[Baroque]] <small>(17th)</small>{{·w}} {{nowrap end}} [[Rococo]] - [[Neoclassicism]] - [[Romanticism]] <small>(18th)</small> |
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{{nowrap begin}} [[Realism (arts)|Realism]]{{·w}} [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelites]]{{·w}} [[Academic art|Academic]]{{·w}} [[Impressionism]]{{·w}} [[Post-Impressionism]]{{·w}} [[Neo-impressionism]]{{·w}} [[Chromoluminarism]]{{·w}} [[Pointillism]]{{·w}} [[Cloisonnism]]{{·w}} [[Les Nabis]]{{·w}} [[Synthetism]]{{·w}} [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]]{{·w}} [[Hudson River School]] {{nowrap end}} |
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{{nowrap begin}} [[Modern art|Modernism]]{{·w}} [[Cubism]]{{·w}} [[Expressionism]]{{·w}} [[Abstract expressionism]]{{·w}} [[Abstract art|Abstract]]{{·w}} [[Neue Künstlervereinigung München]]{{·w}} [[Der Blaue Reiter]]{{·w}} [[Die Brücke]]{{·w}} [[Dada]]{{·w}} [[Fauvism]]{{·w}} [[Neo-Fauvism]]{{·w}} [[Art Nouveau]]{{·w}} [[Bauhaus]]{{·w}} [[De Stijl]]{{·w}} [[Art Deco]]{{·w}} [[Pop art]]{{·w}} [[Futurism (art)|Futurism]]{{·w}} [[Suprematism]]{{·w}} [[Surrealism]]{{·w}} [[Color Field]]{{·w}} [[Minimalism]]{{·w}} [[Installation art]]{{·w}} [[Lyrical Abstraction]]{{·w}} [[Postmodern art|Postmodernism]]{{·w}} [[Conceptual art]]{{·w}} [[Land art]]{{·w}}[[Performance art]]{{·w}} [[Video art]]{{·w}} [[Neo-expressionism]]{{·w}} [[Outsider Art]]{{·w}} [[Lowbrow (art movement)|Lowbrow]]{{·w}} [[New media art]]{{·w}} [[Young British Artists]]{{·w}} [[Stuckism]]{{·w}} [[Systems art]] {{nowrap end}} |
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=== Famous artists === |
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: [[Leonardo da Vinci]] - [[Michaelangelo]] - [[Picasso]] - [[Rembrandt]] - [[Ansel Adams]] |
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: [[List of art magazines]] - [[List of art movements]] - [[List of art schools]] - [[List of museums]] |
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*[http://www.nga.gov/home.htm National Gallery of Art Washington] |
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*[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-17 ''Art and Play'' from the Dictionary of the History of ideas] |
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* [http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html In-depth directory of art] |
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*''[http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/art-design/artandartistfiles/ Art and Artist Files in the Smithsonian Libraries Collection]'' (2005) Smithsonian Digital Libraries |
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*[http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection.asp?HomePageLink=permanentcollection_l The Metropolitan Museum of Art - permanent collection] |
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*[http://moma.org/collection/ Museum of Modern Art - online collection] |
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*[http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistIndex.aspx?alpha=A1 artnet - browse by gallery or artist] |
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*[http://artforum.com/picks/ Artforum magazine - online art reviews - also previews of upcoming exhibitions] |
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Revision as of 05:15, 13 October 2008
Ramsay--Durfee Estate | |
 Ramsay-Durfee Estate, 2008 | |
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| Location | 2425 S. Western Ave., West Adams, Los Angeles, California |
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| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | Frederick Louis Roehrig |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000821 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 24, 1989 |
The Ramsay-Durfee Estate, also known as Durfee Mansion, Durfee House or Villa Maria, is a historic Tudor Revival mansion on Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California. It has been designated a Historic Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Architecture
Completed in 1908, the three-story, 42-room mansion was designed by Frederick Louis Roehrig. Roehrig also planned the landscape gardening and layout of the grounds.[2] The mansion is located on a 2.8-acre (11,000 m2) site that also includes a formal garden and carriage house with chauffeur's quarters.[3][4] When the house was completed, the Los Angeles Times published a full-page article accompanied by numerous photographs. The Times called it "among the finest homes in Los Angeles" and one of architect Roehrig's "best efforts." The Times described the exterior of the mansion as follows:
"The house is distinctly of the typical English domestic architecture. The exterior is of stone and half timber and plaster finish, while the roof is of slate. It is probably the finest example of the purely English type of dwelling in this city."[2]
The Times also made note of the grand staircase describing it as "the stair builder's art in mahogany" lit by a large group of art glass windows.[2] The third floor was almost entirely taken up by a 25-foot (7.6 m) by 99-foot (30 m) ballroom with a large brick fireplace and an open truss and exposed beam ceilings.[2]
History
The house was built for a wealthy lumberman, William E. Ramsay, who died in 1909 -- shortly after the mansion was completed.[5] His widow continued to live in the mansion until her death in 1916.[5]
In the early 1920s, the property was purchased for the unheard of price of $105,000 by William G. and Nellie McGaughey Durfee. Mr. Durfee was a horse-racing devotee, and Mrs. Durfee was the sheltered dauthter of a Figueroa Street millionaire.[6] Their marriage had been a scandal reported on in the newspapers, as Mr. Durfee had divorced the mother of his two children in 1910 and married Nellie in 1911.[6] During the 1920s, the house was a gathering place for the motion picture business, and its grand staircase and ornately-paneled rooms were popular filming locations.[4] Mr. Durfee died in 1927, reportedly from food poisoning while on a fashing trip in the Pacific Northwest.[6] Nellie remained at the house until her death in 1976, reportedly living as a recluse.[4] Columnist Jack Smith toured the Durfee residence in 1976 and found the house virtually unchanged from the time of Mr. Durfee's death 50 years earlier. Though Mr. Durfee had died during Prohibition, the wine cellar remained untouched and full of vintage wines dating to the 1890s and 1900s as well as 183 bottles of vintage whisky. Mr. Durfee's wide-brimmed felt hats and tweed suits were still hanging in his closet.[7] Smith noted that Mrs. Durfee died at age 99, "wasted and blind," in an upstairs bedroom -- "alone with her companion-housekeeper, her cat, her ostrich feathers, her unopened boxes of silk stockings, her sculptures and paintings and Oriental rugs."[7]
In 1978, the Brothers of St. John of God bought the property from the Estate of Nellie Durfee for $470,000.[4] The purchaser was a Roman Catholic religious order that operated 260 hospitals which purchased the property to serve as its western headquarters.[4] In 1982, the house was opened to the public for the first time in its history for a benefit dinner to support KUSC radio.[8]
Historic designation
In 1980, the property was designated (under the name "Villa Maria") as a Historic Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as "a distinguished example of Tudor Revival architecture of the early 20th Century."[3] It was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
See also
- List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles
- List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
- ^ a b c d "English Domestic Architecture Employed in Designing Handsome West Adams Heights Home". Los Angeles Times. 1908-09-27.
- ^ a b "Heritage Board Cites Villa Maria". Los Angeles Times. 1980-01-04.
- ^ a b c d e "Catholic Order Purchases Historic Durfee Mansion for Headquarters". Los Angeles Times. 1978-03-12.
- ^ a b "Social Leader Is Called by Death". Los Angeles Times. 1916-07-28.
- ^ a b c Harry Anderson and Mary Wormley (1987). Historic West Adams: Then and Now. West Adams Heritage Association.
- ^ a b Jack Smith (1976-07-21). "Among Her Souvenirs". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Marylouise Oates (1982-06-14). "KUSC Opens Up the Durfee Gates". Los Angeles Times.
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