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A skeptical public had heard rumors of Kinney's eccentric re-development ideas in the coastal marshlands of Southern California, but no one took him seriously.
Old-time Venice resident and historian Arnold Springer explains who Venice's founder was.
A mural on Dell Avenue and Carroll Canal, was erected by Emily Winters as a tribute to the culture and change she observed while living in the canals in the 1960s.
Francisco Letelier and his brother, José, established the "Brigada Orlando Letelier", and began traveling across the country creating collaborative murals.
Frank Rios was born in the Bronx promptly abandoned and moved to a foster home and was unable to speak until the age of 6.
In the 1970s, a young woman from Pacoima named Judith F. Baca moved to Venice with the hopes of becoming the next great American muralist.
A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
Everyone in Los Angeles, even if they don't know it, is familiar with the work of Robbie Conal.
While he was a contemporary of the Ferus artists,John Baldesarri was never part of the group.Baldesarri did not care much about their attitudes towards art.
Artist Ed Ruscha describes his emotions as he drove to Los Angeles, at the age of 19, from Oklahoma City.
Paintings from Bengston, embraced his knowledge and love of motorcycles by incorporating the same materials - metal and automotive paint.
Artist Ed Moses was the only abstract expressionist of the Ferus Group, a link between the rebellious emotions of New York and the cool aesthetic of the West