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Title
Exhibit at Otis Art Institute
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Laskey, Anne
Date Created and/or Issued
1978
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi.
Exterior view of an art gallery on the campus of the Otis Art Institute, located at 2401 Wilshire Boulevard. Banners and posters are promoting the Chinese art exhibit, "Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County." The Otis Art Institute began when Gen. Harrison Gray Otis gave the site to the city in 1917 for advancement of art in the West. It expanded in 1939 when its Board purchased E.T. Earl's mansion next door. In 1946 the publically supported Otis Art Institute was renamed to Los Angeles County Art Institute. A $7,000,000 building project for new facilities, designed by Austin, Field & Fry, began in 1951 and included art galleries, library wing, administrative offices and classrooms. In 1960 it again became known as Otis Art Institute. In 1997, Otis, now known as Otis College of Art and Design, moved from this location to the Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Campus in West Los Angeles and in 2004 this campus became the Charles W. White Elementary School of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Type
image
Format
1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00090036
Marlene & Anne Laskey Wilshire Boulevard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b16_f1_i96
CARL0004962184
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/121681
Subject
Otis Art Institute
Art schools--California--Los Angeles
College buildings--California--Los Angeles
Art, Chinese--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Art museums--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs
Slides
Time Period
1971-1980

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