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Title: Vidor, King, residence
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Neff, Wallace, 1895-1982, Architect
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
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Description: Exterior and interior views of house; views of horses and stable. Pieces from Vidor's art collection can be seen in many of the interior photographs.
Negatives previously rehoused. See also Wallace Neff Architectural Collection; photCL 211 for photographs of Neff's work; and photCL 450 for Neff's family albums and one album featuring his architectural work. Research shows photos were taken in Spring/Summer 1940 and Summer/Fall 1942. Image (017) of the living room with painting over fireplace was taken in 1942. It's possible the other photos of artwork were also taken in 1942. (source: S. Watters, 2010).
Architecture of Southern California : A Selection of Photographs, Plans, and Scale Details from the Work of Wallace Neff (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964, 2nd printing 1966), 40–41. Wallace Neff, Jr. and Alson Clark, David Gebhard, foreword to Wallace Neff, Architect of California's Golden Age (Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1986), 138–139. "Exercise No. 2 for Developing Architectural Taste: Scale," House Beautiful, January 1945, 70–71.
Type: Image
Extent: Number of items: 28 ; Black-and-white negatives (28)
Identifier: photCL MLP 0940
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/8867
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Interior decoration--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Decorative arts--Photographs
Place: Beverly Hills, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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