BIRTH OF THE COOL: CALIFORNIA ART, DESIGN, AND CULTURE AT MIDCENTURY
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GALLERY E, SECTION I: JAZZ LOUNGE (Includes framed photographs, framed album covers, 9 chairs, 3 side tables, magazines, 2 overhead parabolic speakers, LCD Screen, hanging lamps, carpeting)
WILLIAM CLAXTON PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ MUSICIANS---22 Framed Photographs
William Claxton William Claxton, June Art Pepper, Los Angeles, Christy, Hollywood, 1956 1956, Silver Gelatin Silver Gelatin Photograph Photograph, 16 X 20 inches, 16 X 20 inches, courtesy courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Los Angeles Angeles
William Claxton, Sonny William Claxton Rollins’s “Way Out West” Bill Evans, Hollywood, recording session with 1962, 5/25, Silver Gelatin Hampton Hawes, Leroy Photograph, 20 X 16 Vinnegar, Shelly Manne, inches, signed, titled, Rollins, and Barney Kessel, dated, numbered verso, Contemporary Studios, Los courtesy Fahey/Klein Angeles, 1956, courtesy Gallery, Los Angeles Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
William Claxton William Claxton Gerry Mulligan Seated on Bird and Chet,The Tiffany Stage, San Diego, 1955 6/25 Club, Los Angeles, 1952 Silver Gelatin Photograph 5/25, Silver Gelatin 16 X 20 inches, courtesy Photograph, 16 X 20 Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los inches, Signed, stamped, Angeles titled, dated, numbered verso, courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
William Claxton William Claxton Chet Baker (Piano), Chet Baker and Crew Hollywood, 1954 (from Color Tran), 1956 18/25, Silver Gelatin 6/25, Silver Gelatin Photograph, 16 X 20 inches, Photograph, 16 X 20 Signed, stamped, titled, inches, , courtesy, dated, numbered verso, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Angeles Los Angeles
William Claxton William Claxton Chet Baker and Gerry Clifford Brown, Mulligan at the Haig Club, Hollywood, 1954, 5/25, Los Angeles, 1952 6/25 Silver Gelatin Photograph, Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 X 14 inches, courtesy 16 X 20 inches, courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles Angeles
William Claxton William Claxton Helima & Chet Baker, Hot Dog Stand, Los Redondo Beach, 1955 20/25 Angeles, 3 AM, 1961 Silver Gelatin Photograph 18/25, Silver Gelatin 16 X 20 inches Photograph, 16 X 20 Signed, stamped, titled, inches, Signed, stamped, dated, numbered verso, , titled, dated, numbered courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, verso, courtesy Los Angeles Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
William Claxton William Claxton Max Roach, Hollywood, Ornette Coleman, Los Silver Gelatin Photograph Angeles, 1959 7/25 16 X 20 inches Silver Gelatin Photograph Signed, stamped, titled, 16 X 20 inches, , courtesy dated, numbered verso, , Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Angeles Los Angeles
William Claxton William Claxton Stan Kenton Band, Balboa Valley Jam Session, 1960 Beach, 1957, 9/25, Silver 5/25, Silver Gelatin Gelatin Photograph Photograph, 16 X 20 16 X 20 inche, signed, inches, courtesy stamped, titled, dated, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los numbered verso, , courtesy Angeles Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
Dinah Washington, William Claxton Hollywood, 1959 20x16 Silver Miles Davis Los Angeles, Gelatin Photograph, Edition 1957, Silver Gelatin 25, courtesy Fahey/Klein Photograph Gallery, Los Angeles 16 X 20 inches, , courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
SELECTION OF WEST COAST JAZZ ALBUM COVERS –Approximately 30 framed covers
William Claxton William Claxton Album cover for Sonny Album cover for Chet Rollins, Way Out West Baker & Crew (Contemporary Records, (World Pacific Records, 1957) 1956)
William Claxton David Stone Martin Album cover for Howard Album cover for West Rumsey's Lighthouse All- Coast Jazz, with Stan Stars, Vol. 6 (Contemporary Getz and Shelly Manne Records, 1955) (Verve Records, 1955)
Album cover for June William Claxton Christy’s Something Cool Album cover for Jazz (Capitol Records, 1953) Canto: An Anthology of Poetry and Jazz, Vol. 1 (World Pacific Records, 1958)
William Claxton Album cover for Gerry Album cover for Chet Baker & Mulligan Quartet Strings (Fantasy, 1953) (Columbia Records, 1953)
album cover for Miles Davis’s William Claxton Birth of the Cool Jazz West Coast (Capitol Records, 1957) (World Pacific, 1953)
“Stars of Jazz” television program, hosted by Bobby Troup and ran on KABC Los Angeles from 1956-1958. Clips from episodes: March3, 1958: Howard Rumsey Lighthouse All-Stars with June Christy, March 31, 1958: Art Pepper Quintet, and September 1, 1958: Dave Brubeck Quartet
Eero Saarinen George Nelson Tulip Series, designed 1956 Lamps: Ball Pendant Tulip Chairs (9) (1947), Saucer Pendant Side Tables (3) and Cigar Pendant (1952) Courtesy of Design Within Courtesy of Design Within Reach Reach
GALLERY E, SECTION II: PERIOD ANIMATION (3-4 LCD Screens with headphones and original Jules Engel Artwork for the Gerald McBoing Boing Animations)
Jules Engel, Gerald McBoing Boing, drawings on board, 1950, courtesy Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gerald McBoing Boing’s Symphony, 1953, created by United Production Agency with animation by Jules Engel, produced by Columbia Pictures
“Beep Beep,” (Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote), 1951, animation by Chuck Jones, produced by Warner Brothers
“Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom,” 1953, created by Ward Kimball, produced by Disney