• • A long-term resident of Miami's colorful Art Deco precinct, the artist and portraitist favors vivid tropical hues and freely mixes Eastern archetypes (such as sumo wrestlers and geisha girls) with images drawn from America's entertainment culture. In Kreloff's recent artwork, Donald Duck's nephews frolic in the kitchens of Japanese characters doing the dishes, and Tokugawa sumo wrestlers pay their respects to Broadway star Ethel Merman. Anime creatures and Kabuki figures mingle with Joan Crawford and other Hollywood stars.
• • Maybe Martin Kreloff has been channeling Ed Hardy in his current exhibition now being shown at the Laura Henkel Gallery of Fine Art, 107 East Charleston Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas, Nevada. This display will be on view from now through 21 August 2010.
• • Mae West on the West Coast • •
• • In 1932, Mae West established her primary residence in Los Angeles on Rossmore Avenue at the Ravenswood Apartments. Considering her courtroom woes, it's amusing that Mae would settle into a boulevard named for Judge Ross — — not that she even realized how Rossmore got its name. These fascinating factoids (below) on Rossmore's history will interest dedicated Mae-mavens. Or maybe you knew everything already.
• • HISTORY OF ROSSMORE AVENUE • •
• • Ida Hancock Ross named Rossmore Avenue, the western border of the Hancock Park residential area, in honor of her second husband, Judge Erskine Mayo Ross. The couple was married in 1909, a merger of an oil multimillionairess and an esteemed California judge. ...
• • The El Royale apartments have been home to Huell Howser, Nicholas Cage, Cameron Diaz and — — at the Ravenswood apartments — — Mae West. An apartment at The Mauritania was home for a few weeks to President John F. Kennedy during the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.
• • It was in 1920 that Wilshire Country Club opened on Rossmore Ave. and Beverly Blvd. on property leased from G. Allan Hancock.
• • The avenue also serves as the eastern boundary of Hancock Park. ...
• • To continue reading or to learn more about the history of this area of Los Angeles where Mae West made her home for several decades, see below.
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• • Article: "History of Rossmore Avenue"
• • Larchmont Chronicle [542½ North Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90004] — — www.larchmontchronicle.com
• • Editor & Publisher: Jane Gilman
• • Published on 1 July 2010
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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