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Goodpasture's station art installation uses multiple components to evoke Azusa's horticultural history with images of California Sycamores, citrus, and California Fan palm trees. The four bench-mounted mosaics reflect separate historic themes (honey bees and oranges, sycamore trees, wild hyacinth, and camellias).
Artist's Statement: “At different times and under differing names, this site has been the foundation of one of the earliest, productive and innovative California Ranchos; one of the most successful and well-known citrus companies; and the world’s leading grower of landscape and garden plants.”
- 28-foot long hand-painted art glass canopy panels
- glazed ceramic mosaics on four cast concrete benches
- concrete pavement images
- rail bridge decorative concrete panels
- sand-blasted pavement floral designs on the concrete floor of the adjacent parking structure
Goodpasture's station art installation uses multiple components to evoke Azusa's horticultural history with images of California Sycamores, citrus, and California Fan palm trees. The four bench-mounted mosaics reflect separate historic themes (honey bees and oranges, sycamore trees, wild hyacinth, and camellias).
Artist's Statement: “At different times and under differing names, this site has been the foundation of one of the earliest, productive and innovative California Ranchos; one of the most successful and well-known citrus companies; and the world’s leading grower of landscape and garden plants.”
LOCATION: station platform, APU/Citrus College Station, Metro A Line (Blue), 905 S. Citrus Avenue, Azusa, California, USA
CERAMIC MOSAICS:
"Honey Bees and oranges" theme pays tribute to citrus industry pioneer Henry Dalton who first developed the Azusa area
"Sycamore" theme pays tribute to the California native Western Sycamore tree. It was the namesake of an early ranch in this area owned by sisters Kate Slauson Vosburg and Louise Slauson MacNeil who established the Azusa-Foothill Citrus Company in 1902.
"Wild Hyacinth" theme pays tribute to the native wild hyacinth. It was the namesake of an early ranch in this area owned by sisters Kate Slauson Vosburg and Louise Slauson MacNeil who established the Azusa-Foothill Citrus Company in 1902.
"Camellia" theme pays tribute to the popular Rosedale's Beauty camellia flower propagated by the Monrovia Nursery in the 1950s.
ART GLASS CANOPY PANELS:
PALM TREE PAVEMENT DESIGN:
PALM TREE RAIL BRIDGE DESIGN:
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