Art on display at an art room open house, Santa Monica High School, 1937-1939

Item Overview

Title

Art on display at an art room open house, Santa Monica High School, 1937-1939

Photographer

Farnham, Carolyn Bartlett, 1921-1985

Date Created

[between 1937-1939]

Date

1937/1939

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Photographs housed with this negative sleeve are related to others from a sleeve labeled "Carolyn's negatives." The photographs are visually and thematically similar. In addition, both sleeves contained photographs of Santa Monica High School structures built between 1937 and 1939 by the Works Project Administration (WPA). Both sleeves also included construction site images, likely related to the WPA’s reconstruction project (image ark nos. 21198/zz002d8j8h and 198/zz002d8k9h).
Photograph of two women standing in front of a display case housing Mexican folk objects. The objects are on display for the art department's open house night. Objects on display include a serape blanket, a sombrero, and a figurine of a man riding a horse or donkey. Hanging at left is a painting of a mariachi playing a guitar, the words "La Fiesta" printed over the image. Photograph probably taken by Carolyn Bartlett, Santa Monica High School.
Figurine of a man on a horse (viewed in the display case at right) was also used in a still life photograph (image ark no. 21198/zz002d8jbj).

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: SMHi Art Rm. Open House Nite. [Sleeve is an envelope addressed to Mr. Adelbert Bartlett with postal cancelation: "Los Angeles, Calif., Apr 25, 1937."]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Santa Monica High School (Santa Monica, Calif.)

Location

California--Santa Monica

Longitude

33.766512

Latitude

-118.190481

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Art--Study and teaching--California--Santa Monica
Art exhibitions--California--Santa Monica