Untitled Composition (1964)
Lorser Feitelson
Lorser Feitelson's work was the subject of a monographic exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1972. Feitelson and his wife, artist Helen Lundeberg, supported the city's gallery, establishing an annual fellowship to encourage young artists. The award is adjucated by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates.
Oil on enamel on canvas 60 x 50 in
© Photography by Gerard Vuilleumier © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts
Studio Residence B of Frank Lloyd Wright, for Aline Barnsdall, on Her Olive Hill in Hollywood, California (1945)
Edmund Teske
Olive Hill and the structures Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Aline Barnsdall were favorite subjects for Edmund Teske, who lived in Studio Residence B, one of two guesthouses on the property, for several years in the early 1940s.
Solarized gelatin silver print 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Courtesy of the Edmund Teske Archives and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica. © Photograph by Edmund Teske © Edmund Teske Archives, Laurence Bump and Nils Vidstrand
Joe Waano-Gano of the San Fernando Valley Professional Artists' Guild Testifying Before the Building and Safety Committee (1951)
Photographer Unknown
Black-and-white photograph
Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Juba (1965)
Charles White
Lithograph 16.7 x 25 in
Collection of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs © The Charles White Archives
Perspective, Residence of Aline Barnsdall—Hollyhock House (Southwest) (ca. 1918)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, laid on poster board 20 5/16 x 21 1/4 in
© Collection of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Hollyhock House
Hollyhock House, Constructed 1921-23 (2010)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Exterior of Hollyhock House.
Image courtesy of City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Hollyhock House. Photograph by Delaine M. Ureno
Paul Williams and Anthony Quinn with Van Gogh's L'Arlesienne (1957)
Unknown Artist
Vincent van Gogh's painting, L'Arlésienne (Woman of Arles), 1890, is viewed by actor Anthony Quinn (R) and Paul R. Williams, President of the Municipal Art Commission of Los Angeles. The painting was part of the first significant exhibition of Van Gogh's work on the West Coast presented at the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park in 1954.
Black-and-white photograph
© Herald-Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Studio Walls (1965)
Edward Biberman
Oil on board 47 x 32 in
Photograph by ARTSCAN Gallery "Z", Courtesy of Suzanna Weiner Zada
Power Up (A,B,C,D) (1965)
Sister Mary Corita Kent
Serigraph 36 x 29.5 in
Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles
Councilman Harold Harby with Edmund Kohn's Bird in the Moon Painting (1953)
Unknown Artist
As part of the Red-baiting that occurred in Los Angeles during the 1950s, Councilman Harold Harby took on the task of accusing modern artists of having Communist ties. In this photograph Harby compares Bird in the Moon by surrealist painter Edmund Kohn with a picture by a mentally disabled artist. Harby protested accepting the artwork, a proposed gift by Howard Ahmanson, into the city's art collection, saying "If this is a bird the moon can have it!"
Black-and-white photograph
© Herald-Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Sign Posted by Aline Barnsdall at Barnsdall Park (1945)
Unknown Artist
Close-up of a sign posted in Barnsdall Park, which states the following: "BARNSDALL PARK In 1926 I gave this park to the city; the recreation center and playgrounds for the use of children, the house for the uses of art, and the grounds for the pleasure of all. Will these artists and art loving people, also the fathers and mothers of the children who play here, and those old 'HOLLYWOODIANS' who have loved the hill for many years, JOIN ME IN FORMING A COMMITTEE TO INSURE IT FUNCTIONING PERMANENTLY UNDER THESE CONDITIONS OF THE DEED? Aline Barnsdall, Box 9622 Los Feliz Station, Los Angeles 27, California."
Black-and-white photograph
© Herald-Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Record for Hattie (1975)
Betye Saar
Assemblage box 13.5 x 14 x 2 in
Photograph by Frank J. Thomas Betye Saar
