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Title
""Peace on Earth"" at Music Center
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1981
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Designed by Jacques Lipchitz and installed in 1969, the 30-foot ""Peace on Earth"" bronze sculpture depicts a dove descending to Earth as a spirit of peace, further symbolized by a Madonna standing inside a tear-shaped canopy, being supported by reclining lambs. The reflecting pool was replaced by an automated fountain designed by WET 20 years later. As part of a $40 million revitalization of the Music Center Plaza, renamed Jerry Moss Plaza, the sculpture was moved from its central location to the western edge along Hope Street in 2018. Before the sculpture was reinstalled, it received a new base in which a time capsule was placed. Inside the capsule is a flock of origami cranes with wishes for a future world of fellowship and harmonious coexistence.
The ""Peace on Earth"" bronze sculpture in the central reflecting pool at the Music Center Plaza. In the foreground is the Music Center dedication, which reads, ""The Music Center -- A Living Memorial to Peace -- Dedicated to -- Dorothy Buffum Chandler -- 1964."" Some of the plaza's manicured ficus nitida trees are seen along Hope Street, directly across from the Department of Water & Power (DWP) headquarters (background), March 1981.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00160980
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b123_f1_s9
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134431
Subject
Music Center of Los Angeles County
John Ferraro Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sculpture
Bronze sculpture
Reflecting pools
Flags--United States
Office buildings
Streets
Buses
Pedestrians
Automobiles
Weeping figs
Hope Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Lipchitz, Jacques,--1891-1973
Albert C. Martin and Associates
Time Period
1981-1990
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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