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Title
""The Old Woman of the Freeway""
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1974
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
""The Old Woman of the Freeway"" (or the ""Freeway Lady"") was painted along the Hollywood Freeway by Kent Twitchell in honor of his grandmother who had lived in Hollywood. Actress Lillian Bronson (1902-1995) served as Twitchell's model, but the afghan captured in the mural was one made by his grandmother. In 1986, the mural was lost when Blue Wallscapes, a billboard company, painted over it. The mural was recreated 30 years later on the Students Services Center of Los Angeles Valley College, near where Fulton and Hillview Park avenues meet.
Kent Twitchell painting his ""The Old Lady of the Freeway"" mural on the Los Angeles Prince Hotel, 1255 W. Temple Street in Echo Park, in July 1974.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00163725
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_123_f5_s3
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134511
Subject
Murals
Los Angeles Prince Hotel
Artists--United States
Scaffolding
Older women in art
Lost works of art
Hotels
Bronson, Lillian,--1902-1995
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States Highway 101
Twitchell, Kent
Time Period
1971-1980
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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