US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Sculpture depicts a barefoot, muscular young man in working clothes in a squatting position. He is holding up a large wheel that rests on the ground in front of him. The interior of the wheel is cast in relief, with wheels, gears, and other symbols of the industrial age. Cast stone sculpture by Donal Hord was funded by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) in 1934. The sculpture depicts a man crouching behind a wheel filled with gears and is variously known as "Man and the Wheel" or "Wheel of Industry" or "Man and the Machine." It was Hord's first PWAP project, and may have been the first many WPA sculpture projects created in Southern California. ANSWER: This piece of unusual sculpture crouches in front of the old east door of the County Museum and he overlooks the rose garden of Exposition Park. KNOW YOUR CITY NO. 49 -- This ungracefully crouched fellow holding a wheel of industry is in front of an important door of an important building in prominent park. He never has to go to the Rose Parade. You'll find answer on Page 32, Part ll.
Type
image
Format
b&w negative
Identifier
uclalat_1429_b257_95950BT ark:/21198/zz0002t58g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Façades--California--Los Angeles Museums--California--Los Angeles County Landmarks Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History--Buildings
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