Names: Katz, Leo, 1887-1982 / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The photograph shows the end of one side panel of a mural with the overall 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

Description:: Portrait of Leo Katz wearing a jacket and tie. Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Description:: View of the central, "Youth Arisen," panel of Katz's mural of three panels, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration). 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

Description:: The photograph shows one of the side panels of the "Youth Arisen" mural with the overall 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. The mural was funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration).
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The mural, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration), 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

Description:: View of the central, "Youth Arisen," panel of Katz's mural of three panels, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration). 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

Description:: Portrait of Leo Katz wearing a jacket and tie. Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait of Leo Katz wearing a jacket and tie. Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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