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Alexander Archipenko works on a clay bust of the Ukranian poet Taras Shevchenko, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Alexander Archipenko working on a sculpture bust of the Ukranian poet Taras Shevchenko during a stay in California. Archipenko sits at left and reaches up to smooth the clay bust. The bust he works on sits atop a table at center. Another cast of the sculpture sits in the background at right.
Date:
March 28, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Alexander Archipenko works on a clay bust of the Ukranian poet Taras Shevchenko, Los Angeles, 1935

Artist Ada May Sharlpess next to the model for her sculpture "Nuestra Reina de Los Angeles" now in Echo Park, Los Angeles, 1935

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
Artist Ada May Sharlpess next to the model for her sculpture "Nuestra Reina de Los Angeles" now in Echo Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Astronomers Monument at the nearly completed Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934

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
Astronomers Monument at the nearly completed Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, 1934