"Spanish California"
Agency: Federal Arts Project (FAP)
Started: 1937
Completed: 1937
Artists: Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Quality of Information: Good
Marked:
Unknown
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
The mosaic, “Spanish California” was created by Stanton Macdonald-Wright for the Thomas Edison Middle School in Los Angeles, and hangs in the school’s auditorium foyer. Tiles of different shapes give the mural a variety of textures.
Macdonald-Wright was an unemployed artist hired by the Federal Arts Project (FAP) in 1937.
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"Spanish California"
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Macdonald-Wright mosaic, Edison Middle School - Los Angeles CA
Source notes
Marilyn Wyman, A New Deal for Art in Southern California: Murals and Sculpture under Government Patronage. Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, 1982.
Steven Gelber, "Working to prosperity: New Deal murals in California," California History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Summer, 1979), pp. 98-127
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