Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Portrait of artist Leo Katz wearing a suit and tie. The photograph was taken in the lobby of the Frank Wiggins Trade School (now LA Trade Tech) at the time that he completed his mural panels on the 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. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fisher, Nancy; Padrick, Katheryn; Savin, Juliet; Moran, Frances; Art-Mural by Leo Katz; Katz; Leo.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz002883bm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People Artists--American--California--Los Angeles Arts Katz, Leo, 1887-1982 Frank Wiggins Trade School
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