The freeway lady, Los Angeles, 1974, undergoing restoration

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Undergoing restoration of The freeway lady, Los Angeles, 1974, Prince Hotel, exterior, 1255 West Temple Street (visible from the Hollywood Freeway), Los Angeles/Echo Park. An elderly woman standing with a granny-squared afghan wrapped around her. The model was Lillian Bronson, a character actress who resembled two of the artist's great-grandmothers. In 1981 a new structure built next door to the hotel obscured the mural's bottom half. In 1986 the mural was painted over, without informing the artist, in order to sell the place for advertising. Citing the California Art Preservation Act (passed in 1980), Twitchell sued the building's owner. In March, 1992, a settlement was reached, providing $125,000 for restoration of the mural. The re-born version includes a three-dimensional fiberglass extension of the afghan over the roof, as well as an added segment on the adjoining wall down to the ground. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, p. 100, #4.

Asset Metadata

Title The freeway lady, Los Angeles, 1974, undergoing restoration

Subject Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Older women (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 1255 West Temple Street (roadways), California (states), Echo Park (populated places), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles (cities), USA (countries)

Geocoordinate 34.066365,-118.254046&spn=0.012194,0.024784&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.435825,101.513672 (point)

Temporal Subject 1974

Type images

Format 1 slide (extent), 2 x 2 in. (dimensions), color (color), color slides (aat), slides (photographs) (aat)

Source Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1974

Creator Dunitz, Robin J. (photographer), Twitchell, Kent (artist)

Contributor Los Angeles County (Calif.) (sponsor), National Endowment for the Arts (sponsor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email afa@usc.edu

Repository Name USC Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library

Repository Location Watt Hall 4d, USC, Los Angeles, California, 90089-0294, USA

Rights Dunitz, Robin J.

Access Conditions 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, rjdunitz@comcast.net. 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, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Identifier dunitz-0240.tif (filename), dunitz-0240 (identifying number), dunitz-c15-258 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 258

Unique identifier UC1603188

Legacy Identifier dunitz-0240

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 12.5 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 31.7 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title The freeway lady, Los Angeles, 1974

Description The freeway lady, Los Angeles, 1974, Prince Hotel, exterior, 1255 West Temple Street (visible from the Hollywood Freeway), Los Angeles/Echo Park. An elderly woman standing with a granny-squared afghan wrapped around her. The model was Lillian Bronson, a character actress who resembled two of the artist's great-grandmothers. In 1981 a new structure built next door to the hotel obscured the mural's bottom half. In 1986 the mural was painted over, without informing the artist, in order to sell the place for advertising. Citing the California Art Preservation Act (passed in 1980), Twitchell sued the building's owner. In March, 1992, a settlement was reached, providing $125,000 for restoration of the mural. The re-born version includes a three-dimensional fiberglass extension of the afghan over the roof, as well as an added segment on the adjoining wall down to the ground. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, p. 100, #4.

Subject Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Older women (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial 1255 West Temple Street (roadways), California (states), Echo Park (parks), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles (cities), USA (countries)

Coverage Temporal 1974

Inherited Subject Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Older women (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)