Subject: Sculpture--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: This photograph appears with the article, “British Sea Power in Silver Jubilee Review—Selassie and Italian Dogs,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Jul. 1935: 22.
Date:: July 26, 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:: Small scale (model ?) sculprute of a soldier standing beside a flag in a pedestal, probalby intended for Pershing Square.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Chaupann sits next to an elaborate sculpture of a tower surrounded by a garden. The phrase "cinema center" is painted on the front face of the tower.
Date:: [circa December 1, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated in an automobile at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Griffith Park on the occasion of the unveiling of the "Spirit of the C. C. C" sculpture by sculptor John Palo-Kangas. He holds a model of the statue that had just been handed to him by Captain Lyston S. Black, commander of the C. C. C. Camp, who stands outside the car, with another uniformed man on the far left.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Inspired by the masterly work of Alfred Hertz, noted orchestra conductor, Djey el Djey, Hollywood sculptor, made a bust of the conductor, which Mr. and Mrs. Hertz are viewing.
Date:: March 1935
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:: 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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