Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Subject: Sculpture--California--Los Angeles and Arts - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Felipe de Neve was the founder of the city of Los Angeles. The 7 foot high statue of De Neve was set in the 1873 pool at the center of the Plaza facing the Plaza Church. The statue was donated by the Daughters of the Golden West.
Date:: March 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Felipe de Neve was the founder of the city of Los Angeles. The 7 foot high statue of De Neve was set in the 1873 pool at the center of the Plaza facing the Plaza Church. The statue was donated by the Daughters of the Golden West.
Date:: March 1932
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:: Sculptor Ernest Yerbysmith (originally Ernst Alfred Schmidt) standing next to his sculpture of 3 children and their dog, with 2 little girls seated facing the dog, one holding a ball and the other holding a doll, and a little boy standing next to them holding a ball.
Date:: August 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of sculptor John Palo-Kangas placing a mold on his plaster statue known as the "Spirit of the C. C. C." (Civilian Conservation Corps) at the Civilian Conservation Camp No. 1917 in Griffith Park [now the Travel Town train museum]. The mold was used to create a concrete version of the statue. The statue was a Los Angeles County Relief Administration art project. Palo-Kangas told a reporter that the work would be called "Conservation of Man and Nature." The statue was replaced by a bronze version in 1993.
Date:: August 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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