Aline Barnsdall, the donor of Barnsdall Art Park, was the ultimate iconoclast, whose support of radical causes kept her under the watchful eye of the FBI for 24 years. She supported many radical causes not because she believed in them, but they shared her opposition to all conformity. A fiercely independent feminist, a bohemian, a devotee and producer of experimental theatre, and an enormously wealthy heiress, she was a single mother at time when women were simply not single mothers. More importantly, she was also the real mother of modern architecture, having brought Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, and Richard Neutra to California, to work on the avante garde theatre colony she envisioned for Olive Hill, here in Los Feliz.
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