- City:
- Long Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Sculptures, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- WPA Arts Project (WPAAP), Arts Programs
- Completed:
- 1940
- Artist:
- Louis Zack
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Russian-born sculptor Louis Zack created this bust of James Russell Lowell, the school’s namesake, in 1940, with funding from the Work Projects Administration Arts Project (WPAAP). Carved from a single block of brown marble, “the bust rests on a black terrazzo base set onto a wooden podium. […] The black base is engraved on three sides: the left side lists the artist’s name and the date, the front states the name of the person depicted “James Russell Lowell”, and the right side names the Agency commissioning the work “WPA/So. Calif. Art Project” (LBUSD WPA Artwork Collections Assessment Guidelines Survey, p. 15).
Source notes
Andrea Morse, Michelle A. Lee, Michelle Rosenberg, Long Beach Unified School District WPA Artwork Collections Assessment Guidelines Survey, April 2011.
Site originally submitted by Gray Brechin on August 3, 2016.
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