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Title: Downtown mural takes a back seat to parking lot
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
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 painted this mural on the north wall of the Victor Clothing Co. building. The five-story mural measures 70'h x 70'w, and was painted with latex and acrylic on masonry; it took him three years to complete.
Photograph caption reads: "A Latino bride and groom gaze out from behind a high-rise parking structure still under construction at Broadway and Second Street. The majestic 70-foot painting by one of the city's most active muralists, Kent Twitchell, has been a downtown landmark for more than a dozen years but will be totally erased from view with the completion of the garage". Photograph dated: June 18, 1988.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078212
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b044_f1_i41
CARL0000079862
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24720
Subject: Public art--California--Los Angeles
Urban beautification--California--Los Angeles
Murals--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Twitchell, Kent

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