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268
California Design Surveys, ten
California Design Surveys, ten
estimate: $150–200
result: $938
provenance: Collection of Mark McDonald
Complete Lot Details
Pedro Friedeberg: Paintings and Sculpture, Carmen Llewellyn, New Orleans, 1989. 6 pages, Softcover.
California Design Eight Thomas W. Leavitt, et al., Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1962. 96 pages, Hardcover.
California Design Ten Eudorah M. Moore, et al., Pasadena Art Museum and The Ward Ritchie Press, Pasadena / Los Angeles, 1968. 160 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
California Design Eleven Eudorah M. Moore, et al., Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1971. 175 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
California Design 76: A Bicentennial Celebration Eudorah M. Moore, et al., California Design of Pasadena, Pasadena, 1976. 195 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
California Five: Footnotes to Modern Art History Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1977. 124 pages, Softcover.
Pacific Dream: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957 Susan Ehrlich, UCLA- Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1995. 207 pages, Softcover.
Mathews: Masterpiecs of the California Decorative Style Harvey L. Jones, Peregrine Smith, Inc., Santa Barbara / Salt Lake City, 1980. 127 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Forty Years of California Assemblage Henry Hopkins, Anne Ayres, et al., Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1989. 241 pages, Softcover.
California Design Nine Eudorah M. Moore, et al., Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1965. 144 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket.
Mark McDonald
The Founder of Mid-century Design
Mark McDonald has always been at the epicenter of the world that is mid-century design, to a large extent, it is a world he created. For over forty years, Mark has pioneered whole fields of collecting, providing the scholarship and creating the market for mid-century furniture, studio jewelry, ceramics and Italian glass.
In 1983, Mark opened Fifty/50 with partners Mark Isaacson and Ralph Cutler. This groundbreaking gallery defined collectors’ taste. At the time, modern works were still largely overlooked; Mark and his partners collected and presented the rarest and most interesting pieces, often working with the makers themselves, to create compelling exhibitions accompanied by catalogs documenting the work.
In the 1990s, Mark opened Gansevoort Gallery, where he continued to curate collections and exhibitions of lasting impact. Over the years, he established relationships with artists and their estates becoming the go to authority on the designs of Art Smith, Ilonka Karasz and Leza McVey, among others. His enthusiasm for the material extended beyond the gallery floor to the back room where lucky visitors got to flip through Mark’s impressive design reference library and discuss the importance of works with him.
A connoisseur and wealth of knowledge, Mark became a resource for prominent collections across the globe—private and public alike. He inspired a generation of collectors and dealers introducing designers and their production to an audience that continues to grow. In 2002, Mark closed Gansevoort and established 330 gallery in Hudson, New York. Now, semi-retired, Marks splits his time between New York and Florida. He still collects, curates, supports, and shepherds the scholarship of mid-century design.