- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Murals, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Arts Project (FAP), Arts Programs
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Artist:
- Althea Ulber
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Althea Ulber painted a mural, “Youth and Democracy,” at Jordan High School in Los Angeles, CA. The 4 x 30 foot mural is located in the school library. Completed in 1937, it was funded by the Federal Art Project (FAP).
The mural depicts fifteen figures of different ethnicities, with an older man at the center. A ribbon painted across the mural reads “Confucius, Good Relationship, Music, Industry, Language, Law, Literature, BROTHERHOOD, Dignity, Love for Nature, Courtesy, Fine Taste.”
Born in Los Angeles, Ulber studied with artists including Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the director of the FAP’s Southern California division. From 1921 to 1941, Ulber taught in the Chouinard Art Institute’s children’s department.
Source notes
Robin J. Dunitz, Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals (RJD Enterprises, 1998), p. 229.
LAUSD Art & Artifact Collection/Archive and Museum Collection Inventory Report (New Deal WPA)
Site originally submitted by Natalie McDonald on February 28, 2023.
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