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Title: This week's cover artist William de la Torre, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
20-year-old William De La Torre studied art at the Belmont High School. He graduated in 1934 and proceeded to earn a year's scholarship at the Otis Art Institute. He cam here with his parents from Juarez as a small child and he likes to paint the scenes of his native land, working from models and photographs.
William is a smiling young man in a suit and tie with styled dark hair.
Photograph appears with the article, "About This Week's Cover," Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1935: E14.
Text from negative sleeve: 1018 - William De La Torre artist [stamped:] Jul 10 1935
Handwritten on negative: William De La Torre
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7325
ark:/21198/zz002df0fm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Artists--Mexican-American--California--Los Angeles
De la Torre, William, b. 1915 or 16
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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