Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: California--Los Angeles / Collection: Connell (Will) Papers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Interior view of a built-in wall display and built-in sofa at The Bachelors haberdashery, designed by Julius Ralph Davidson in an art deco style, "featuring panels of Makassar ebony set into aluminum frames, brown and tan carpeting laid in strips, and high-quality pigskin upholstery." (Christopher Long, "The Rise of California Modern Design, 1930-41." in ed. Wendy Kaplan, California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way (2012), 65.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Detail of the art deco styled interior of The Bachelors haberdashery, designed by Julius Ralph Davidson in an art deco style. A cactus in a pot stands in front of venetian blinds serving as a room divider. The room beyond is furnished with directors chairs and a wood paneled desk, and the wall on the left is faced with closets with wood paneled sliding doors.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photograph of Stanley Reckless seated in front of a painting on an easel and holding a paint brush with a Pallet on a tripod next to him. Two paintings on the wall behind him are partially visible and other paintings are turned away and leaning against the wall.
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photographic portrait of artist Stanley Reckless wearing a white shirt and tie and seated in his studio. Visible behind him are 2 small paintings on the wall, the backs of 2 or 3 paintings and a jar filled with paint brushes.
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Stanley Reckless was born Stanley Zbytniewski. In 1913 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), studied under Daniel Garber. In 1915, 1916 he was awarded 2 Cresson Traveling Scholarships, and traveled to Paris, enrolling briefly at the Academie Julian. In 1920 he moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania and started exhibiting at PAFA, the National Academy of Design, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1924 he settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he painted the landscape and shared a studio with Charles Hargens. In 1930 he moved to California where he painted portraits of members of the film industry. He co-founded the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photograph of Stanley Reckless standing in front of a painting on an easel in his studio, looking towards his wife (?) seated in a chair with a cat
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photograph of Dave Whyte, Darryl Zanuck, Lucian Hubbard and Raymond Griffith, of the Los Indiens polo team, posing on their horses with their mallets raised. They wear t-shirts with the Indian head nickel image on the front.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Raymond Griffith was one of the great silent movie comedians; Darryl Zanuck was an American film studio executive and producer; and Lucien Hubbard was a film producer and screenwriter.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

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