- City:
- Long Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Murals, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Arts Project (FAP), Arts Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Artists:
- Ivan Bartlett, Jean Swiggett
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Ivan Bartlett and Jean Swiggett—alumni of Long Beach Polytechnic High School—completed this tempera fresco, entitled “Industrial Activities in Long Beach,” in 1938/39, under the auspices of the WPA Federal Art Project (FAP). The mural, which wraps around an interior stairwell between buildings 300 and 400, measures 18 by 32 feet and depicts a crowded city scene of local people at work and play near the harbor.
Source notes
Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry
Additional information courtesy of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles
Robin J. Dunitz, Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals (RJD Enterprises, 1998), p. 253.
Site originally submitted by Gabriel Milner on October 13, 2014.
Additional contributions by Natalie McDonald.
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