Mural panel by artist Leo Katz at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mural panel by artist Leo Katz at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

1935

Date

1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

The WPA (Works Project Administration) mural was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
The photograph shows one of the side panels of a mural with the overall theme of the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures.
Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen.

Caption

Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Leo Katz murals.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fisher, Nancy; Padrick, Katheryn; Savin, Juliet; Moran, Frances; Art-Mural by Leo Katz; Katz; Leo.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Katz, Leo, 1887-1982
Frank Wiggins Trade School

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.033030037903900

Latitude

-118.27017188072200

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Public art--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Landmarks
Arts