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 Astronomer’s Monument honors 6 great astronomers: Hipparchus, Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and William Herschel. It was a U. S. Treasury Department's Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). Designed by Archibald Garner, the art deco style monument it was executed in cast stone by Garner and 5 other sculptors: Gordon Newell, Djey El Djey (a.k.a. Djey Owens), George Stanley, Roger Noble Burnham, and Arnold Foerster. Photograph of the Astronomers Monument at the nearly completed Griffith Observatory; the ground is bare dirt, indicating that the landscaping had not been completed. A crowd is gathered around the monument on portable wooden benches with a flag-covered speakers' stand next to the flag pole. Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Park Statue Given Public: Two Thousand at Dedication: Shaft Near Planetarium on Griffith Grounds Honors Astronomers," 26 Nov. 1934: A3. Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles City ["City" crossed out] Parks, Griffith Park, Arts Science Monument
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6085 ark:/21198/zz002cw7fd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sculpture--California--Los Angeles Astronomers Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.) Public sculpture--California--Los Angeles Griffith Observatory Public Works of Art Project (U.S.)
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