Eight decades after her death, the multi-hyphenate Galka Scheyer is having a moment. She’d be thrilled.

In February, Dear Little Friend: Impressions of Galka Scheyer, an exhibition devoted to the curator, art dealer, and impresario who brought European Modernism to the West Coast, opened at the Norton Simon Museum. And this spring, at her Richard Neutra–designed home on Blue Heights Drive in the Hollywood Hills, Okey Dokey Konrad Fischer and Del Vaz Projects presented Wunderkammer, a site-specific installation by contemporary artist Rita McBride.

My own introduction to Scheyer came in the form of a small black-and-white snapshot in the archives of R.M. Schindler. Taken in 1931, it shows her reclined on a daybed stacked with pillows. She’s framed by a grid of windows—Schindler’s Kings Road House in West Hollywood, where she lived for a short time. I was conducting research on Pauline Gibling Schindler, best known as the architect’s wife, who in recent years has reemerged back into the history of modernism as a creative force in her own right. Read More …