Description
The Jody Greenwald research materials on Cliff May collection spans 6 linear feet and dates from circa 1950 to circa 2009.
The collection includes Cliff May’s correspondence organized by residential project, transcriptions of an interview Greenwald
did with May in 1984, her personal research notes, magazine and newspaper clippings regarding Cliff May’s work, black-and-white
photographs and slides of Cliff May’s residential designs, and VHS tape recordings of episode number 412 of the television
show “If Walls Could Talk” which featured a Cliff May San Diego hacienda.
Background
Jody Greenwald, California interior designer, educator, lecturer and writer was born in Los Angeles, California on August
13, 1922. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for both her Bachelor’s degree in Design and Art History
as well as her Master’s degree in Art and Architectural History. In 1972, she founded and was the director of the Interior
and Environmental Design Program at UCLA Extension. During her career, Greenwald did extensive research on Cliff May for a
prospective book that never came to fruition. Jody Greenwald died at the age of 88, on June 5, 2010.