- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Sculpture and Bas Relief, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP)
- Completed:
- 1934
- Artist:
- Nina Saemundsson
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Icelandic sculptor Nina Saemundsson sculpted an eight-foot black cement nude of Prometheus for the Federal Arts Project (FAP). The sculpture, “Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth” (1934), is located at the eastern Wilshire Boulevard entrance to MacArthur Park.
Source notes
David Kipen (ed.), Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011), 159.
Site originally submitted by Natalie McDonald on January 19, 2023.
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