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Title | Hollywood jazz, 1945-1972, Hollywood, 1990 |
Description | Hollywood jazz, 1945-1972, Los Angeles, 1990, Capitol Records, exterior, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood. From left to right: Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie (Bird) Parker, Tito Puente, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Shelly Manne, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and Duke Ellington. Acrylic on concrete, 26' x 88', by Richard Wyatt. Sponsored by LA Jazz Society and LACAD. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, p. 90, #27. It was restored in 2013 with funding from Capital Records. "Wyatt set about restoring the mural in November 2012" after the mural faded to the point that "he could see the original outline marks that he painted to guide him"; "for the restoration, it has been re-created from photos of the original, this time fired onto 12-inch-square ceramic tiles for longer life: 2,288 of them, to be precise" according to Wyatt -- "Hollywood Jazz" mural lives on more brightly" , Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2013 at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-hollywood-jazz-mural-20130219,0,1467048.story |
Subject (personal name) | Baker, Chet; Mulligan, Gerry; Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955; Puente, Tito, 1923-2000; Davis, Miles; Fitzgerald, Ella; Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965; Manne, Shelly; Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993, Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959; Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 |
Subject (topic) |
Street art Mural painting and decoration Jazz singers |
Geographic subject (street address) | 1750 North Vine Street |
Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
Geographic subject (state/province) | California |
Geographic subject (country) | USA |
Geographic subject (other) | Hollywood |
Geographic coordinates | 34.103205,-118.326573 |
Coverage date (for display) | 1990 |
Artist | Wyatt, Richard |
Photographer | Dunitz, Robin J. |
Other contributor | L.A. Jazz Society; LACAD |
Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date created (for display) | 1990 |
Type | images |
Format | 5 slides : col. ; 2 x 2 in. |
Format (aat) |
color slides slides (photographs) |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Identifying number | dunitz-0372; dunitz-0373; dunitz-0374; dunitz-0375; dunitz-0377 |
References | Dunitz, Robin J. Street Gallery: a guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, c1993; Dunitz, Robin J. Street gallery: a guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Rev. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, c1998; |
Rights | The images are accessible for fair use. However, muralists retain all rights to their work, and Robin Dunitz retains copyright for the images. Any requests for permission to reproduce the images must be directed to: Robin Dunitz, 503-577-3842, rjdunitz@comcast.net |
Physical access | The files represent Ms. Dunitz' personal collection of materials collected over the years of her involvement in documenting and preserving Los Angeles murals. They are available for consultation in the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library, University of Southern California. For an appointment, contact the Library at (213) 740-1956. |
Repository name | USC Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library |
Repository address | Watt Hall 4d, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0294 |
Repository email | afa@usc.edu |
Filename | dunitz-0372.tif; dunitz-0373.tif; dunitz-0374.tif; dunitz-0375.tif; dunitz-0377.tif |
Part of collection | Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002 |