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DESCRIPTION: series of five 10-foot high by 6-foot wide oil-on-canvas paintings/murals (unframed)
This series of five oil paintings/murals was originally a single 10-foot by 30-foot piece that Herter made, along with his other historic paintings in the History Room, for the walls of the library's original Hope Street tunnel entrance. The theme, scale, and composition of these historic murals were designed for the tunnel entrance walls at ground level. After a few years these historic paintings began to suffer serious damage from seeping moisture in the tunnel, and they were removed, resized and partitioned to fit the current History Room (formerly the Reference Room). The placement of the paintings/murals high on the walls unfortunately compromised Herter's intention that the work be shown at the human scale of eye-level.
This series of five oil paintings/murals was originally a single 10-foot by 30-foot piece that Herter made, along with his other historic paintings in the History Room, for the walls of the library's original Hope Street tunnel entrance. The theme, scale, and composition of these historic murals were designed for the tunnel entrance walls at ground level. After a few years these historic paintings began to suffer serious damage from seeping moisture in the tunnel, and they were removed, resized and partitioned to fit the current History Room (formerly the Reference Room). The placement of the paintings/murals high on the walls unfortunately compromised Herter's intention that the work be shown at the human scale of eye-level.
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LOCATION: interior, south wall of History Room, Central Library, 630 W. Fifth Street, Historic Core, Los Angeles, California, USA
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