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

Description:: This photograph was published with the article "Park Board Favors Art Production. P.W.A. Sculptor's Model Worthy of Permanency, Three Members Report." Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1934: A1.
Date:: July 27, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
Date:: [circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Astronomer’s Monument honors 6 great astronomers: Hipparchus, Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and William Herschel. It was a U. S. Treasury Department's Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). Designed by Archibald Garner, the art deco style monument it was executed in cast stone by Garner and 5 other sculptors: Gordon Newell, Djey El Djey (a.k.a. Djey Owens), George Stanley, Roger Noble Burnham, and Arnold Foerster.
Date:: November 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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