F. K. Ferenz, with artists Dean Cornwell and David Alfaro Siqueiros at Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1932

Title: F. K. Ferenz, with artists Dean Cornwell and David Alfaro Siqueiros at Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created: October 1932
Date: 1932-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Dean Cornwell was a muralist and illustrator. Among his most famous works are 16 panels at the Los Angeles Public Library depicting a pageant of California history.
F. K. Ferenz (director of the Plaza Art Center), with artists Dean Cornwell and David Alfaro Siqueiros at Olvera Street. They are looking at a document, perhaps a plan. This is probably at the time that Siqueiros painted a mural at Olvera St. titled "América Tropical."
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large murals in fresco. His mural, América Tropical, at Olvera Street, is still in place.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: F. K. Ferenz, Dean Cornwell, David Alfaro Siqueiros

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Ferenz, Franz K., 1889-1956
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1896-1974
Cornwell, Dean, 1892-1960
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.057881
Latitude: -118.237776
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Artists--American--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Artists--Mexican--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1593
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dc32g
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Rights Country: US
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