Know Your City No.49. "Man and the Machine" sculpture and façade of the east door at Los Angeles County Museum

Item Overview

Title

Know Your City No.49. "Man and the Machine" sculpture and façade of the east door at Los Angeles County Museum

Date Created

January 5, 1956

Date

1956-01-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Sculpture depicts a barefoot, muscular young man in working clothes in a squatting position. He is holding up a large wheel that rests on the ground in front of him. The interior of the wheel is cast in relief, with wheels, gears, and other symbols of the industrial age.
Cast stone sculpture by Donal Hord was funded by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) in 1934. The sculpture depicts a man crouching behind a wheel filled with gears and is variously known as "Man and the Wheel" or "Wheel of Industry" or "Man and the Machine." It was Hord's first PWAP project, and may have been the first many WPA sculpture projects created in Southern California.
ANSWER: This piece of unusual sculpture crouches in front of the old east door of the County Museum and he overlooks the rose garden of Exposition Park.

Caption

KNOW YOUR CITY NO. 49 -- This ungracefully crouched fellow holding a wheel of industry is in front of an important door of an important building in prominent park. He never has to go to the Rose Parade. You'll find answer on Page 32, Part ll.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs

Names

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History--Buildings

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Longitude

34.0172023182055

Latitude

-118.287692070007

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Façades--California--Los Angeles
Museums--California--Los Angeles County
Landmarks