Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The WPA (Works Project Administration) mural was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939. The photograph shows one of the side panels of a mural with the overall theme of the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures. Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Leo Katz murals. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fisher, Nancy; Padrick, Katheryn; Savin, Juliet; Moran, Frances; Art-Mural by Leo Katz; Katz; Leo.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00288393
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Public art--California--Los Angeles Murals--California--Los Angeles Arts Katz, Leo, 1887-1982 Frank Wiggins Trade School
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