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Title
Music Center Plaza
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
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional 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.
A woman sits on the western edge of the reflecting pool at the Music Center Plaza. Immediately behind her is the ""Peace on Earth"" bronze sculpture. On the left, beyond the line of manicured ficus nitida trees, is the Mark Taper Forum and across Grand Avenue is the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration (right), March 1981.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00160989
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b123_f1_s9
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134459
Subject
Music Center of Los Angeles County
Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
Sculpture
Bronze sculpture
Women
Reflecting pools
Theaters
Public buildings
Civic centers
Office buildings
Weeping figs
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Lipchitz, Jacques,--1891-1973
Welton Becket and Associates
Time Period
1981-1990
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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