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Portrait of Leo Katz standing next to his "Youth Arisen" mural panel at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The mural was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Portrait of Leo Katz standing next to his "Youth Arisen" mural panel at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

John Coleman Burroughs, standing next to his wife J.C. Coleman, exhibits oil paintings at Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
John Coleman Burroughs, standing next to his wife J.C. Coleman, exhibits oil paintings at Stendahl Gallery. The paintings were oils and pastels depicting indigenous Mexicans. Burroughs was the son of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author best known for his creation of the character Tarzan.
Date:
March 20, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
John Coleman Burroughs, standing next to his wife J.C. Coleman, exhibits oil paintings at Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, 1937

Artist Leo Katz points the "Youth Arisen" panel of his mural at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Leo Katz points to a section of the central, "Youth Arisen," panel of his mural of three panels. In this panel a central youth, with his eyes closed, is shown between creative uses of technology (like the movie camera seen in this photograph) and destructive uses as in war. The overall theme of the murals shown in the other two panels is the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Artist Leo Katz points the "Youth Arisen" panel of his mural at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Portrait of artist Leo Katz wearing a suit and tie, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Portrait of artist Leo Katz wearing a suit and tie. The photograph was taken in the lobby of the Frank Wiggins Trade School (now LA Trade Tech) at the time that he completed his mural panels on the theme of the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Portrait of artist Leo Katz wearing a suit and tie, Los Angeles, 1935