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Title
Wilson Silsby in studio, with easel, brush, and painting, Los Angeles, 1927
Contributor
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer)
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Silsby, Wilson Eugene, -- 1883-1952 (subject)
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
The copyright holder of these items has granted the UC Regents permission to make them publicly available on the web.
Description
Wilson Silsby in studio, standing at easel, with brush in right hand and jar of brushes in foreground, with painting of narrow street with buildings and arches
-118.2463036
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2358 - 2359 - 2360 Art Studios, Los Angeles Latin Qtr, Noted Los Angeles Painters, 1927. Otis Williams, noted painter-Sculptor-Photographer with head of Boy. The Silsbys - 310 N Grand St, JM [sic] [Henry Wiliam] Cannon, Ruth Alexander
This photograph was taken for an article by Neeta Marquis, "True Spirit of Art Found in City," that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on July 3, 1927.
Wilson Silsby was an artist who worked as an artist and art director in the motion picture industry in Los Angeles
34.0582747
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic negative
Identifier
edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:464
uclamss_1300_0453
0453
ark:/21198/zz002bdmx8
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Painters -- American -- California -- Los Angeles
Cityscape paintings -- California -- Los Angeles
Artists' studios -- California -- Los Angeles
Place
California
Los Angeles
Relation
Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
ark:/21198/zz002bdn8x (document)
ark:/21198/zz002bdn7d (document)

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