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At a mural exhibition at the Los Angeles Central Library, artist Leo Katz points to an area of a cartoon drawing for the Frank Wiggins Trade School mural, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: At a mural exhibition at the Los Angeles Central Library, artist Leo Katz points to an area of a cartoon drawing for the Frank Wiggins Trade School mural, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: November 1934
1934-11
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The cartoon drawing depicts a area of a multi-panel mural for the Frank Wiggins Trade School (now LA Trade Tech) in Los Angeles. The theme of the mural program is the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures. After completion, the mural immediately became controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the trade school lobby and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
Artist Leo Katz points to an area of a cartoon drawing for a mural on display at an exhibition about Los Angeles area murals held at the Los Angeles Central Library during November 1934.
Another cartoon for this mural and a review of the exhibition by Arthur Millier are in the Los Angeles Times, 11/11/1934.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5310
ark:/21198/zz002cv9q2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Cartoons (Working drawings)
Arts
Los Angeles Public Library. Central Library
Katz, Leo, 1887-1982
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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