Mural Monday: A Horse (of course) --- detail from Piazzoni's "The Land" mural at de Young in San Francisco

Gottardo F.P. Piazzoni (1872-1945)
The Land, 1932 (oil on canvas)

The Land is one of two panoramic five-panel mural suites (the other is The Sea) "created for a loggia at the top of the grand staircase in the main building of San Francisco's Public Library, The paintings, which were intergrated into the architecture of the Beaux-Arts building, were intended to suggest vistas seen through the columns of a terrace." These now reside in the Piazzoni mural room at the de Young fine art museum in San Francisco. The room is lovely and the museum hosts various events in this space.

The Land, 1932
Gottardo F. P. Piazzoni (1872-1945)

 

恭禧发财 -- Happy Year of the Horse -- Mural detail by Elizabeth Garrison & Victor Henderson

Wishing you a Happy Year of the Horse with this outstanding artwork by our own Elizabeth Garrison and Victor Henderson. 
The mural was installed last year at Lake Los Angeles Community Gymnasium. 
Lake Los Angeles is a community in Antelope Valley near Lancester, CA.

Chase with Mr. Sheets' Horsemen

Horsemen Mural, Millard Sheets, 1974
Glass mosaic inlaid in black granite
Chase bank (formerly Home Savings & Loan)

PV residents are so fortunate to have a Millard Sheets masterpiece available for daily viewing.

I've read that this work is called "50 Horsemen" although I count only 21 riders (?)

Color My World - Muralist at Work

Heather Soodak, artist at work at Miraleste Library, Rancho Palos Verdes, March 2012

A few Saturdays ago, while browsing thru the library, I almost ran into a sign "MURALIST AT WORK" and looked up to see Heather Soodak painting a lovely, bright mural in the children's reading area. Heather is very talented and very nice. She says she'd love to illustrate a children's book - which she would be excellent at, judging by the mural and the drawings on her blog, where she is documenting the progress of the mural: hsoodak.blogspot.com.

See lots of great murals worldwide at Mural Monday at Oakland Daily Photo.

"B" is for (Fifty-One) Bees by Elizabeth Garrison & Victor Henderson (ABC Wednesday)

Created in 1996 by my favorite artists, this wonderful Fifty-One Bees mural (I count 24 out of 51 in the photo) located on the Southern California Flower Market building, received a face lift this year (pasadenaadjacent.com - here-is-there). 

Join ABC Wednesday hosted by Mrs. Nesbitt.

"S" is for Street Art (abc Wednesday in Culver City, CA)...or New ART Kids in Town?

 Art by Herakut (German artists Hera & Akut) can be found at crossroads of Washington Blvd. and National.) The murals are really eye-catching (yes, pun intended) and I did turn around to get a photo.

More info can be found on Culver City Times Blog and The Dirt Floor.

A Few Horsemen of Millard Sheets

Detail - 50 Horsemen Mural, Millard Sheets, 1974

Glass mosaic inlaid in black granite,

Chase Bank, 27319 S. Hawthorne Blvd. Rolling Hills Est.

The beautiful mural once again adorns the front entrance of what was originally Home S&L in RPV. The cement holding the tiles had losened and had to be redone.

"S&L OFFICE SET TO OPEN (Source: Los Angeles Times, Apr. 21, 1974)

Construction of a branch office of Home Savings and Loan Assn. at 27319 S. Hawthorne Blvd., Rolling Hills, is scheduled to open about May 1.

The 8,260-square-foot facility, costing $350,000, will replace a small temporary structure now in a coner of the building site. Home Savings has 56 offices.

The entrance to the new branch features a giant glass mosaic inlaid in black granite, depicting 50 horsemen. Millard Sheets of Claremont designed the building and Robert Clements and Associates, Los Angeles, did the engineering and planning."

Horsepower in Rolling Hills (Weekend Reflection)

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A red hot Hudson Hornet by the Dapplegray School sign, off of PV Drive North.
The tile mural was hand-painted & donated by Julie Hatch.
Now I just wanted to get a shot of a horse and rider in the frame too...
...and while not quite as picturesque as I envisioned, I got my wish.

LA Murals for Hand / Pink (2 Things Challenge)

Touching Art, Old Torrance, CA - November, 2009

6 LA Artists
Kent Twitchell, 1979

1220 Engracia Avenue (close to Torrance Blvd and Cabrillo) on the side wall of the State of CA Employment Development Department building. Sponsored by the Office of the State Architect/CAC. Acrilyc, 20' x 110'.

The mural portrays LA muralists, all graduates of Otis Art Institute as was Mr. Twitchell:
Marta Chaffee Stang (shown below), Alonzo Davis, Paul Czirban, Oliver Nowlin, Eloy Torrez, Waynna Kato.

Join the weekly 2 Things Challenge hosted by Larry at Eeyores Ramblins. Click the link for Larry's delightful Hand/Pink entry.

Air from Earth, Water, Fire, Air Mural by Garrison & Henderson (SkyWatch Friday)

A closer view of the fantastic, newly installed mural by Elizabeth Garrison and Victor Henderson as shown on yesterday's post.

The mural is a permanent installation at LAFD Fire Station No. 5 in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles. So all you locals and tourists, stop by to see it on your way to or from LAX.

Directions: take Sepulveda Blvd. North, left on Manchester, left on Emerson, park near the fire station gate, walk 50 feet and admire.

See some fabulous skies at SKY WATCH FRIDAY.

Elizabeth Garrison & Victor Henderson: Mural at Fire Station No. 5, Westchester/Los Angeles

It is my pleasure to present the latest murals by two extraordinary Los Angeles artists:

Artists: Elizabeth Garrison and Victor Henderson
Location: Los Angeles Fire Department FIRE STATION NO. 5,
8900 South Emerson Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90045

ELIZABETH GARRISON & VICTOR HENDERSON have been collaborating on public art projects since the late 1980s. They have completed commissions together for Metrolink, the Community Redevelopment Agency, Santa Fe Springs Arts Council, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and many local municipalities. Their work is characterized by vivid imagery that often reflects historical aspects of the community in which they work.
Garrison is a third generation Californian; she studied art at Pasadena City College and received her BFA from CSU-Long Beach and her MFA from CSU-Los Angeles where she trained as a painter. Garrison took up creamics in 2007, which has added a new dimension to her public art work. Henderson was born in Ohio and raised in Pasadena, CA; he studied art at Pasadena City College and received his BFA from San Francisco State. Henderson was co-founder of the Los Angeles-based mural collective, LA Fine Art Squad during the late 60's and early 70's.

A very small sample of their other work:
Lions of El Monte, 1996
Metro Art
Lion Farm Memorial benches

Stephen Sorensen Park in Lake Los Angeles, upcoming
LA County Arts - 5th District

Drop them a note at PasadenaAdjacent.

'M' is for Missing Mural by Millard Sheets

The black section of the facade on what was originally Home Savings, then Washington Mutual, now Chase (on Hawthorne Blvd) used to have a wonderful mural by Millard Sheets (whom I recently learned about from Pasadena Adjacent). The mural was covered up for about 2 years and has now been removed for restoration (sigh of relief). A 1970's photo of the mural can be found here: Claremont Colleges Digital Library - Mural by Millard Sheets.

See more M's around the world at abc wednesday.