UCLA Extension Schedules Two Arts Field Trips

Mirror Staff

   UCLA Extension has scheduled two field trips on California Impressionism in September and a two-day look at “Los Angeles Modernism in the ‘40s and ‘50s” in October. 
   Collector James Zidell and Harvey Jones, a senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum, will lead the California Impressionism survey, covering its development from its inception to the early Modernist movement and the major plein air artists of San Francisco, Monterey and Southern California, as well as its place in the larger American art scene. 
   The short course includes two Saturday field trips to the Fine Art Dealers Association Show at the John Wooden Center, the Irvine Museum and a major private collection. 
   It’s scheduled for Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., September 18 and 25. 
   The on site study tour of “Los Angeles Modernism of the ‘40s and ‘50s,” begins on Friday night, October 22, 7 to 9 p.m. with a discussion led by architect Leo Marmol. Marmol and Radziner, Santa Monica-based architects, and Tony Merchell, who organizes Modernism tours for the Los Angeles Conservancy and the Taliesin Fellows, of the Case Study House program which was launched by John Entenza, editor of “Arts and Architecture” magazine and included projects by such architects as Pierre Koenig, Craig Ellwood, Raphael Soriano and Gregory Ain. On Saturday, October 23, 8:15 a.m. to 6 p.m., the class will tour several of the Case Study houses. 
   To register for either class call 310-825 9971.