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Title: Late Sunflowers by Fred Sexton, Los Angeles, 1935
Contributor: Sexton, Fred
Date Created and/or Issued: November 17, 1935
1935-11-17
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.
Fred Sexton was an unknown LA painter until this painting and his other one, The Portrait (No. 7), debuted on December 1st at Stendahl Galleries. He received training in Paris. This painting is a still life of sunflowers in a vase.
From the article: "UNKNOWN" SHOWS RARE GIFT; JOHN HELD JR., PAINTS WELL," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 1935.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 2905--Sexton (Stendahl Galleries)
Handwritten on negative: painting by Sexton (Stendahl)
Text from negative sleeve: [Date Stamp:] Nov 22, 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9423
ark:/21198/zz002dhgsf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Still life paintings
Painters (Artists)--American--California--Los Angeles
Stendahl Galleries
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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