When Venice founder Abbot Kinney died in 1920, he left his private home to his long-time chauffeur and companion Irving Tabor. Tabor's family had moved from Louisiana to California at the turn of the 20th century and relocated to Sixth Street in Oakwood, where blacks were allowed to inhabit. Tabor's niece, Navalette Baily, and her cousin, Jataun Valentine are the only remaining residents from that first wave of migration from the South. The women are a living memory of the hope and aspirations of their family, and testament to the ways in which the black community has adapted to change in Oakwood.
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JUDSON STUDIOS
In 1867, William Lees Judson founded the Colonial Glass Company in Garvanza. Judson, a skilled painter and craftsman, had originally come to the area because he thought the climate might be suitable for a weak constitution.
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PLEIN AIR
Plein Air was a style of painting descended from French Impressionism, the French term for "open air" indicating the artist painted outdoors.
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ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, a desire for the handmade craftsmanship of wares and decorative items begin to influence design philosophies in Great Britain. This movement spread throughout Europe and then to North America and became what we now know as the Arts and Crafts movement. Southern Californian artists and architects involved in this movement found special forms of inspiration and opportunity along the Arroyo Seco.
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GARVANZA
Originally, Garvanza was one of the many sectioned plots of the Rancho San Rafael and was mainly a collection of garbanzo bean fields - hence its original name "Garbanzo."
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