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Description:: The statue of Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth in Los Angeles' downtown Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park).
Date:: [circa June 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Charles Kassler Jr. was a painter, printmaker, and lithographer. He lost a hand during a high school chemistry experiment. He studied art and architecture at Princeton University and the Chicago Art Institute. From 1925 to 1932 Kassler continued his studies while living at various times in New Mexico, Europe, and North Africa. While in France he apprenticed himself to a well-known fresco painter. He was active in Denver before moving to Los Angeles in 1933. He painted murals for the Federal Art Project and was an instructor at the Chouinard Art School (1933-34) and School of Design in Pasadena (1939).
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: Related to the article, "Women will Visit New Planetarium." Los Angeles Time, 15 July 1935: A7.
Date:: July 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Bison Hunt fresco located in the Children's Court of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: Fullerton Union High School is located at 201 East Chapman Avenue in Fullerton, CA.
Date:: November 1934
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

Description:: Sculptor Eugene Morahan with a model of his art deco style statue of Saint Monica, which is placed on a table
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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