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When Charles and Ray Eames relocated to Los Angeles in 1941, they became friends with Entenza. Ray designed twenty-six covers for Arts & Architecture Magazine between 1942 and 1947. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on April 12, 2023.

California Arts & Architecture began in 1929 as a magazine for residential design featuring a wide range of styles. When it declared bankruptcy in 1938, the magazine was purchased by John Entenza who transformed it into a modernist haven for design. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on April 12, 2023.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.

The Brutons shared major commissions and collaborated closely, no matter who was charged with the project. Margaret Bruton created this mosaic made of terrazzo and copper. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.

The Bruton sisters — Margaret (1894–1983), Esther (1896–1992), and Helen Bruton (1898–1985) — were multidisciplinary artists who worked in painting, printmaking, mosaic, terrazzo, and bas-relief. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick #5WomenArtists #InternationalWomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

The first woman to graduate from the Plastic Industries Technical Institute in LA, Koblick envisioned plastic as a fine arts medium that could provide exciting possibilities beyond the material’s traditional, industrial applications. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

Koblick found that the control of curvature, plane, and texture was far more precise to accomplish in plastic than with other transparent media such as glass. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

Freda Koblick (1920–2011) was a native of San Francisco who pioneered cast-acrylic plastic sculpture. She was fascinated by “the promise and the mystery of transparency” of plastic as art. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #FredaKoblick #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 17, 2023.

Want to learn about some amazing female artists? Our exhibition “California Modernist Women” features 15 of them. See it on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 01, 2023.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #California #womenartists #modernism #ZaharaSchatz This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.

Some of Schatz's lamps conducted electrical current through copper wire embedded in Plexiglas; this lamp utilizes a spiral-shaped copper tube as a base and channel for the lamp cord. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #ZaharaSchatz This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.