Location: Venice High School - Los Angeles CA

Venice High School – Los Angeles CA

Venice High School – Los Angeles CA

Venice High School, which opened in 1911, was rebuilt with funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) after the original neoclassical campus suffered extensive damage in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. The architectural firm of Austin and Ashley designed the… read more

Venice High School Murals – Los Angeles CA

Clements and Lundeberg, "History of Southern California" (detail), Venice High School – Los Angeles CA

Grace Rivet Clements and Helen Lundeberg painted two 18′ by 33′ frescoes for Venice High School (Los Angeles, CA) in 1941: “History of Southern California” and “History of Early California.”  The frescoes were funded by the WPA Federal Art Project… read more