Title supplied by cataloger. Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park. Photograph depicts an art exhibit, featuring brush painting from a children's art classroom at Angeles Mesa Elementary School. There are three poster boards on the wall (from left to right) one is a paper cut-out of a happy clown with the word, “Roy G. Biv” at lower right. The second poster is titled 'Brush Painting' and lists seven types of brush styles, four of which are: Press, Twist, Mix Twist and Spilt. The final poster is a painting of a bundle of different colored balloons. A display table shares a color palette with four different paint colors in small containers and a color wheel. Angeles Mesa Elementary School is currently located at 2611 W. 52nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90043. Photograph circa 1965. See images 00119448 through 00119455 and 00119459 through 00119468 for additional photos in this series.
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image
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1 color negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm. Photographic safety negatives
Art Art and design Art exhibitions Paintings Painting--Technique Paint materials Paintbrushes Display boards Classrooms Floral decorations Tables Los Angeles (Calif.)
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