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Title: Surge of the Sea, second prize painting
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Serisawa Studio
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The painting by Rex Brandt won second prize in oils in the All-City Art Exhibit. City councilman, Harold Harby, concluded that the city's annual art show was infiltrated by Communists. Surge of the Sea was one the works labeled controversial. The councilman insisted that the hammer and sickle design was purposely painted on the sail shown on the right. Photo dated: October 10, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059489
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12935.
CARL0000063833
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22906
Subject: Art--California--Los Angeles
Paintings
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Brandt, Rex, 1914-

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