Typical activities of a beach and harbor city, Long Beach, 1938, detail 3 of 3

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Detail 3 of 3 of Typical activities of a beach and harbor city, Long Beach, 1938. Long Beach Plaza parking structure, exterior, Third Street and Locust Avenue, Downtown Long Beach. When this mosaic was created for the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, it was reportedly the largest cut-tile mosaic picture in the country and the single biggest achievement of the Federal Art Project. King supervised the actual execution, which involved the collaborative work of 40 artists. Changing the geometric shapes of tile for each pattern in a design was an innovation of Wright's, and is recognizable in his other southern California New Deal mosaics. In 1979 a major community effort saved the mural from destruction when the municipal auditorium was demolished to make way for a new convention center complex. in 1982 it was mounted at its present location and declared a City Historical Landmark by the Long Beach City Council. Glazed semi-glossed tile mosaic, approximately 38' x 22'. Original design by Henry Allen Nord, redesigned by Stanton MacDonald Wright and Albert Henry King. Sponsored by Federal Art project. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 251, #3.

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Title Typical activities of a beach and harbor city, Long Beach, 1938, detail 3 of 3

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Recreation (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (populated places), Los Angeles (counties), Third Street and Locust Avenue (roadways), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1938

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 1938

Creator Dunitz, Robin J. (photographer), King, Albert Henry (artist), Macdonald Wright, Stanton (artist), Nord, Henry Allen (artist)

Contributor Federal Art Project (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-1247.tif (filename), dunitz-1247 (identifying number), dunitz-c15-1246 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1246

Unique identifier UC1593146

Legacy Identifier dunitz-1247

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.5 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
31.9 cm × 46.5 cm at 300dpi

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Title Typical activities of a beach and harbor city, Long Beach, 1938

Description Typical activities of a beach and harbor city, Long Beach, 1938. Long Beach Plaza parking structure, exterior, Third Street and Locust Avenue, Downtown Long Beach. When this mosaic was created for the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, it was reportedly the largest cut-tile mosaic picture in the country and the single biggest achievement of the Federal Art Project. King supervised the actual execution, which involved the collaborative work of 40 artists. Changing the geometric shapes of tile for each pattern in a design was an innovation of Wright's, and is recognizable in his other southern California New Deal mosaics. In 1979 a major community effort saved the mural from destruction when the municipal auditorium was demolished to make way for a new convention center complex. in 1982 it was mounted at its present location and declared a City Historical Landmark by the Long Beach City Council. Glazed semi-glossed tile mosaic, approximately 38' x 22'. Original design by Henry Allen Nord, redesigned by Stanton MacDonald Wright and Albert Henry King. Sponsored by Federal Art project. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 251, #3.

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Recreation (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial California (states), Long Beach (cities), Los Angeles (counties), Third Street and Locust Avenue (roadways), USA (countries)

Coverage Temporal 1938

Inherited Subject Beaches (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Recreation (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)