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Buckley MacGurrin murals at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Buckley MacGurrin murals at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1935
1935-03
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.
An unidentified woman gestures to a section of MacGurrin's mural.
Similar photograph appears with the headline, ""Gastronomy Through the Ages" Symbolized in Three Paintings," Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar 1935: 12.
These Buckley MacGurrin frescos painted along the walls of the Los Angeles Museum cafeteria are a Public Works of Art project, depicting life-size figures seated along a table placed in chronological order forming a resume of gastronomical history from mythological times.
Handwritten on negative: Murals at LA Museum 3-20-35
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES COUNTY, MUSEUM
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5696
ark:/21198/zz002cvs1g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Murals--California--Los Angeles
Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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