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Title
Wiggins Trade School mural
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
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 incompleted mural at the Frank Wiggins Trade School centered a controversy on July 23, 1935, as some members of the board of education termed it "too ghastly for a school building," while the artist, Leo Katz, and others insisted it is true art. In the mural, Katz seeks to depict youth confronted by war, avarice and lust on one side and home, honor, love and industry on the other. "Magnificent, but ghastly," said Gertrude Rounsavelle, president of the board, which intimated that the panel must be changed or will be removed.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00056874
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2637.
CARL0000060043
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21701
Subject
Los Angeles Trade Technical College
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Trade schools--California--Los Angeles
Vocational education--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Katz, Leo,1887-1982

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