Frances Pomeroy, Henry Van Wolf hold statue copyright
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Henry Van Wolf, born in Bavaria in 1898, was a prominent sculptor in the San Fernando Valley. Moving to the San Fernando Valley in 1944, Van Wolf sculpted many statues and busts on display throughout the Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States. He founded the Valley Artists Guild, also known as VAG in 1948. Van Wolf died in 1982. Caption dated March 21, 1963 reads, "Van Wolf will display models at Good Neighbors meeting in Montrose." The accompanying article partially reads, "Van Nuys sculptor Henry Van Wolf will display models of the statues of John C. Fremont and Mexico's Gen. Andres Pico shaking hands at the end of the Mexican War at a meeting Friday of the Los Angeles County Chapter of Good Neighbors International."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Pomeroy, Frances Muir Van Wolf, Henry--1898-1982 Fre´mont, John Charles,--1813-1890--Statues San Fernando Valley Historical Society Good Neighbors International.--Los Angeles County Chapter Paintings Historians--California--San Fernando Valley Associations, institutions, etc.--California--San Fernando Valley Sculpture--California--San Fernando Valley Sculptors--United States Men--California--San Fernando Valley Women--California--San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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