Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.
After a brief career in the film industry, Everett Ellin opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1957 in the building that now houses the Troubadour music club on Santa Monica Boulevard. Ellin closed this gallery in 1958, and in 1960 opened a new gallery nearby on Sunset Boulevard.
