"Youth Arisen" mural panel by Leo Katz at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

"Youth Arisen" mural panel by Leo Katz at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

View of the central, "Youth Arisen," panel of Katz's mural of three panels, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration). A central youth, with his eyes closed, is shown between creative uses of technology (like the movie camera seen in this photograph) and destructive uses as in war. The overall theme of the murals shown in the other two panels is 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.
The 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.

Caption

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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

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

Names

Katz, Leo, 1887-1982
Frank Wiggins Trade School

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.033030037903900

Latitude

-118.27017188072200

Resource type

still image