The wall that cracked open, City Terrace, 1972

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The wall that cracked open, City Terrace, 1972, 4125 City Terrace Drive (near North Carmelita Avenue), exterior rear alley, City Terrace. One of the best-known extant examples of early local street art. Done at the site where Herron's younger brother was stabbed by local gang members, the image shows two youths with cracked heads coming through the wall. The existing graffiti was incorporated into the mural. Enamel and acrylic on stucco, 25' x 15', by Willie Herron III and local youth. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 286, #7.

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Title The wall that cracked open, City Terrace, 1972

Creator Dunitz, Robin J. (photographer), Herrón, Willie, III, 1951- (artist), Local youth (assistant)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1972

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 4125 City Terrace Drive (roadways), California (states), City Terrace (populated places), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1972

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)

Relation References Dunitz, Robin J. Street Gallery: a guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, c1993 (book), Dunitz, Robin J. Street gallery: a guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Rev. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, c1998 (book)

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.

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/dunitz-c15-1180

Identifier dunitz-1181.tif (filename), dunitz-1181 (identifying number), dunitz-c15-1180 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1180

Unique identifier UC1593046

Legacy Identifier dunitz-1181

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.5 in × 18.7 in at 300dpi
31.9 cm × 47.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002

Description The collection consists of more than 2,000 digitized 35mm slides of murals in Los Angeles photographed by Robin Dunitz. The murals date from 1925 to the early 2000s and were photographed by Dunitz in the late 1980s and early-mid 1990s to early 2000s.

Relation References https://libguides.usc.edu/dunitz_murals (finding aid URL)

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