Esther McCoy

No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.—Reyner Banham.

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"el legado de Esther McCoy se mantiene vivo"
the legacy of Esther McCoy lives on
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vestibulo, Casa Barragan (Luis Barragan, 1947-48)
Luis Barragan 9 March 1902 - 2 November 1988
image courtesy Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán A. C.

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Richard Neutra (Esther McCoy, 1960. published in Italian by il Saggiatore, designed by Anita Klinz)
image courtesy spazio milano

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from Box 47, McCoy papers, AAA: Free and Equal Blues," (1 sound disc) 1946
Josh White, vocal & guitar. Free and Equal Blues (Robinson-Harburg, unreleased) recorded from radio transcription, acetate on aluminum
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model, Archie Lamm house, Los Angeles. unbuilt (Gregory Ain, 1929)
image courtesy Archives of American Art

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quoting McCoy, 1965:
“During the war many architects and engineers in the aircraft plant... were preparing plans for a future house that was to be brilliantly engineered, furnished with gadgets and clothed in pastoral garb – a marriage between Walden Pond and Douglas Aircraft.”

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Laughlin Theater, Long Beach (Irving Gill, 1914-15; destroyed, 1933)
photo: Winstead Photo, 1921
image courtesy Los Angeles Public Library

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@theohonohan yes.
typos happen.

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jewelry display at Paul Flato shop, 8637 Sunset Boulevard (interior designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbing)
photo: Maynard L. Parker, 1938
image courtesy Huntington Library

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@theohonohan yes.
typos happen

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Irving Gill (Esther McCoy, Los Angeles County Museum in collaboration with The Art Center in La Jolla, 1958. catalogue designed by Louis Danziger)

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Kirk house, Seattle (Paul Hayden Kirk, 1944)
photo: Dearborn-Massar
image courtesy University of Washington Libraries

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[1976] Interior view of the Bradbury Building. (William Reagh Collection) https://t.co/w3TFFfyGxT

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The Bachelor's Haberdashery, Los Angeles (J.R. Davidson, 1929)
photo: Will Connell
image courtesy Esther McCoy papers, AAA

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Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
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David and Gladys Wright House, Phoenix, AZ (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950)
photo: William Clift, 2015

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Tower Motors/Lincoln Mercury Showroom, Glendale (John Lautner, 1947-48)
photo: Dr. Block Color Productions

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CBS Building, Sunset Boulevard (William Lescaze, 1938)

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Herman Miller showroom, Los Angeles
(Charles and Ray Eames, 1949)
photo: Dr. Block Color Productions

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the Cellarette, "a concept for a pullout bar on wheels" (J.R. Davidson, undated/ c. 1933)
image courtesy AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara