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Title: Lola Pertson paints a portrait of Patricia Richards, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 29, 1936
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.
Miss Richards sits facing forward while behind her Miss Pertson stands before her easel working with her paint palette.
Photograph appears under the headline, "Debs' Artistic Talents Shown," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: D2.
Text from newspaper caption: Talented debutantes, busily improving their skill, are Misses Lola Pertson and Patricia Richards, painters. Miss Richards, here, is posing for an unfinished portrait in the studio which Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Pertson are building at their home for their daughter, a student of Dario Rappaport.
Handwritten on negative: Patricia Richards Lola Pertson
Text from negative sleeve: 3360 - LtR- Lola Pertson (painting) + Patricia Richards Society [stamped:] Jan 29 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12353
ark:/21198/zz002h8cx5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Paintings
Portrait paintings--California--Los Angeles
Debutantes--California--Los Angeles
Easels
Palettes
Pertson, Lola, 1911-1982
Richards, Patricia Marie, 1913-2002
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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