- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Sculptures, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Arts Project (FAP), Arts Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Artist:
- Eugenia Everett
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Under the auspices of the WPA Federal Art Project (FAP), artist Eugenia Everett sculpted for Brockton Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, CA, a statue now located at George Washington Preparatory High School.
The sculpture is of “Wynken, Blinken, and Nod,” characters in Eugene Field’s Dutch lullaby. Fries Avenue Elementary School (Los Angeles, CA), has a copy of the same statue.
According to a 1937 article in the Los Angeles School Journal, “Eugenia Everett is a wistful young lady, working in her aunt’s studio on Manhattan Place” (Wells, p. 25).
Source notes
Wells, N. W. “Federal Art Project and the Schools.” Los Angeles School Journal XX, no. 29 (April 26, 1937): 17–25.
LAUSD Art & Artifact Collection/Archive and Museum Collection Inventory Report (New Deal WPA)
Oral history interview with Eugenia Everett, 1964 Oct. 14. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Site originally submitted by Natalie McDonald on February 11, 2023.
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