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Title: "Broken Black" wins award
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Certain to cause plenty of pro and con comment both in the arty and non-arty world is this "non-objective" oil painting which won the top $1500 award today at the All-City Art Festival at the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park in Hollywood. "Broken Black" is the work of John Otterson. Howard Ahmanson and Mrs. Pauline Polk, vice president of City Art Commission are shown viewing the painting. Photo dated: July 25, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059503
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12935.
CARL0000063398
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23331
Subject: Ahmanson, Howard
Polk, Pauline
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Art
Paintings
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Barnsdall Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Otterson, John

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