Subject: Arts / Names: Public Works of Art Project (U.S.) / Subject: Public sculpture--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: The statue of Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth in Los Angeles' downtown Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park).
Date:: [circa June 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Born in Hilo, Hawaii on Aug. 16, 1899. Ada May Sharpless was raised in Santa Ana, CA and graduated from USC. Her art studies began in Los Angeles at Otis Art Institute and continued in Paris in the late 1920s with Antoine Bourdelle. She was active in Los Angeles until the early 1940s. Sharpless' work can also be found at General Hospital (L.A. County-USC Medical Center) and at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection