Homage to a Starry Knight, Los Angeles, 1990

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Home to a starry knight, Los Angeles, 1990, Ocean Front Walk at Wavecrest Avenue by Rip Cronk. A huge blow-up of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry night, one of artist's favorite paintings. The brush stroke is purposely done in a graffiti style partly because that is how Van Gogh painted and also appeal to the Venice community. Sponsor by Werner Scharff in liquitex acrylic/air brush, 17' x 37' -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p.192, #18. "Homage to a starry knight; R. Cronk, 1990" -- on the mural.

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Title Homage to a Starry Knight, Los Angeles, 1990

Subject Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890. Starry night (lcsh), Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), Street art (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Los Angeles (cities), Ocean Front Walk at Wavecrest Avenue (roadways), USA (countries), Venice (populated places)

Geocoordinate 33.989559,-118.475897 (point)

Temporal Subject 1990

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)

Date Created 1990

Creator Cronk, Rip (artist), Dunitz, Robin J. (photographer)

Contributor Scharff, Werner, 1916-2006 (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.

Permanent Link (DOI) http://doi.org/10.25549/dunitz-c15-1792

Identifier dunitz-0698.tif (filename), dunitz-0698 (identifying number), dunitz-c15-1792 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1792

Unique identifier UC1603764

Legacy Identifier dunitz-0698

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 32.1 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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