Wilson Silsby in studio, with easel, brush, palette, and painting, Los Angeles, 1927

Title: Wilson Silsby in studio, with easel, brush, palette, and painting, Los Angeles, 1927
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created: 1927
Date: 1927
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: This photograph was taken for an article by Neeta Marquis, "True Spirit of Art Found in City," that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on July 3, 1927.
Wilson Silsby was an artist who worked as an artist and art director in the motion picture industry in Los Angeles
Wilson Silsby in studio, standing at easel, with brush in right hand, palette in left, and jar of brushes in foreground, with painting of narrow street with buildings and arches
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2358 - 2359 - 2360 Art Studios, Los Angeles Latin Qtr, Noted Los Angeles Painters, 1927. Otis Williams, noted painter-Sculptor-Photographer with head of Boy. The Silsbys - 310 N Grand St, JM [sic] [Henry Wiliam] Cannon, Ruth Alexander

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
portraits
Names: Silsby, Wilson Eugene, 1883-1952
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 34.0582747
Latitude: -118.2463036
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Artists' studios--California--Los Angeles
People
Arts
Painters (Artists)--American--California--Los Angeles
Cityscape paintings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_0454
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bdmzs
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.