Image / Kent Twitchell mural of Ed Ruscha

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Title: Kent Twitchell mural of Ed Ruscha
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Kent Twitchell leans from a scaffold hanging over the Job Corps Center building at 1031 South Hill Street as he works on his mural "Monument to Ed Ruscha". The mural was completed in 1987. It took nine years to complete and was destroyed without authorization (it was painted over completely) in 2006.
Photograph caption reads: "Kent Twitchell works on his current mural on Job Corps building". Photograph dated: November 29, 1981.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078196
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b044_f1_i14
CARL0000079799
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24690
Subject: Ruscha, Edward--Portraits
Twitchell, Kent
Public art--California--Los Angeles
Artists--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Ruscha, Edward

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