Photographer: Connell, Will, 1898-1961 - 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:: Lunette-shaped mural study with a male nude half-figure with his hands raised upwards and small airplanes flying around him. A caption beneath the image reads: Communication.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Framed painting of a barn on a hill overlooking an ocean shore with sailboats and houses.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Watercolor painting of a farm landscape with a silo (?) and mobile cabin
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Will Connell (1898-1961) was a self-taught photographer. He opened a studio in downtown Los Angeles in 1925 and became a member of the Camera Pictorialists. He taught at Art Center College in Pasadena from 1931 until his death. His work includes movie publicity shots, magazine assignments and other commercial photography. Connell photographed every industry in California at the time. He completed a number of literary projects and artistic endeavors as well. Connell is known for his use of photomontage and there are examples of this aspect of his work among the nitrate images in the form of the photomontage itself and individual images that were used in creating the montage.
Date:: [between 1928-1961]
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Description:: Studio view of a painting of a kneeling nude man with uplifted hands in front of a building and truss work, perhaps a study for a mural
Date:: between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

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