Buckley MacGurrin murals at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Buckley MacGurrin murals at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: March 1935
Date: 1935-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: These Buckley MacGurrin frescos painted along the walls of the Los Angeles Museum cafeteria are a Public Works of Art project, depicting life-size figures seated along a table placed in chronological order forming a resume of gastronomical history from mythological times.
An unidentified woman gestures to a section of MacGurrin's mural.
Similar photograph appears with the headline, ""Gastronomy Through the Ages" Symbolized in Three Paintings," Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar 1935: 12.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Murals at LA Museum 3-20-35
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES COUNTY, MUSEUM

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5695
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cvs0z
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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