Griffith Observatory - Citations and Additional Resources
For more on the Ballin murals, see their "“A History of Griffith Observatory,” by Christopher Hansen, Melanie Wang and Anthony Cook (excerpt) accessible at http://www.griffithobservatory.org/obshist.html
5. Schrank, Sarah, Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), p. 57.
6. Schrank, Art and the City, p. 44.
7. Quotations appear in Schrank, Art and the City, p. 49.
8. Schrank, Sarah, "Public Art at the Global Crossroads: the Politics of Place in 1930s Los Angeles," Journal of Social History, Vol. 44 Issue 2 (Winter, 2010): 435-457, p. 447. See also Art and the City, pp. 58-59.
9. The incident appears in articles in the Los Angeles Express Jan. 14th, 1936 and Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2nd, 1936, both of which appear in a scrapbook in the Ballin Papers, Box 29, Folder 2.
10. Wilson, Richard Guy, “Gordon B. Kaufmann and Modernism,” in ed. Jay Belloli, Lauren Weiss Bricker et al., Johnson, Kaufmann, Coate: Partners in the California Style (Claremont, CA: Scripps College; Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1992).
11. Monica Jovanovich-Kelley, “The Apotheosis of Power: Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles during the 1930s,” Public Art Dialogue vol. 4 no. 1 (Spring 2014): 42-70 [DOI:10.1080/21502552.2014.878483].
13. Mike Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1996), p. 38-39.
14. From Griffith’s book Parks, Boulevards, Playgrounds (1910) as quoted in Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, p. 5.
15. “A History of Griffith Observatory,” edited from an article by Christopher Hansen and Melanie Wang, Pomona College and Anthony Cook, Griffith Observatory, as appears on the Griffith Observatory’s website at http://www.griffithobservatory.org/obshist.html.
16. Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, p. 90.
17. “An History of Griffith Observatory.”
18. Ebert, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, pp. 185-186.
19. Ballin as quoted in John Mosley’s pamphlet, "The Hugo Ballin Murals at the Griffith Observatory" (Los Angeles: Published by the Griffith Observatory, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Los Angeles, 1998).
Ballin's murals at the Griffith Observatory can be viewed Tuesdays through Fridays from 12 noon to 10pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 10pm. For more information, visit the Griffith Observatory's website.
John Mosley, "The Hugo Ballin Murals at the Griffith Observatory" (Los Angeles: Published by the Griffith Observatory, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Los Angeles, 1998)
Mike Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1996).
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1. Unemployed statistics come from William H. Mullins, The Great Depression on the Urban West Coast, 1929-1933, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 56, 91 and Leonard Leader, Los Angeles and the Great Depression (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991), 198.
2. “The Incoming hobo army” comes from the title of an article by James S. Carter published in the Los Angeles Times Nov. 1st, 1931.
3. According to George Sanchez, the number of Mexican born residents fell from 56,304 in 1930 to 38,040 in 1940. See Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 224-225, 228.
4. Ballin’s “determination to get some element of pure decorative beauty into every picture that he paints…” was noted in a clipping from an unknown author dated Feb. 28th, 1911, that appears in a scrapbook housed in the Hugo Ballin Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles Young Library, UCLA, Box 29, Folder 2.
John Mosley, "The Hugo Ballin Murals at the Griffith Observatory" (Los Angeles: Published by the Griffith Observatory, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Los Angeles, 1998)
Mike Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1996).
If you have any more information about an item you’ve seen on our website or if you are the copyright owner and believe our website has not properly attributed your work to you or has used it without permission, we want to hear from you. Please email the Center for Jewish Studies at cjs@humnet.ucla.edu with your contact information and a link to the relevant content.
1. Unemployed statistics come from William H. Mullins, The Great Depression on the Urban West Coast, 1929-1933, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 56, 91 and Leonard Leader, Los Angeles and the Great Depression (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991), 198.
2. “The Incoming hobo army” comes from the title of an article by James S. Carter published in the Los Angeles Times Nov. 1st, 1931.
3. According to George Sanchez, the number of Mexican born residents fell from 56,304 in 1930 to 38,040 in 1940. See Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 224-225, 228.
5. Schrank, Sarah, Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), p. 57.
6. Schrank, Art and the City, p. 44.
7. Quotations appear in Schrank, Art and the City, p. 49.
8. Schrank, Sarah, "Public Art at the Global Crossroads: the Politics of Place in 1930s Los Angeles," Journal of Social History, Vol. 44 Issue 2 (Winter, 2010): 435-457, p. 447. See also Art and the City, pp. 58-59.
9. The incident appears in articles in the Los Angeles Express Jan. 14th, 1936 and Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2nd, 1936, both of which appear in a scrapbook in the Ballin Papers, Box 29, Folder 2.
10. Wilson, Richard Guy, “Gordon B. Kaufmann and Modernism,” in ed. Jay Belloli, Lauren Weiss Bricker et al., Johnson, Kaufmann, Coate: Partners in the California Style (Claremont, CA: Scripps College; Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1992).
11. Monica Jovanovich-Kelley, “The Apotheosis of Power: Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles during the 1930s,” Public Art Dialogue vol. 4 no. 1 (Spring 2014): 42-70 [DOI:10.1080/21502552.2014.878483].
12. Monica Jovanovich-Kelley, “The Apotheosis of Power: Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles during the 1930s,” Public Art Dialogue vol. 4 no. 1 (Spring 2014): 42-70 [DOI:10.1080/21502552.2014.878483]. See also her dissertation, “Power and Patronage: Public Art and Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles, 1928 – 1935” PhD diss., University of California San Diego, 2014.
13. Mike Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1996), p. 38-39.
14. From Griffith’s book Parks, Boulevards, Playgrounds (1910) as quoted in Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, p. 5.
15. “A History of Griffith Observatory,” edited from an article by Christopher Hansen and Melanie Wang, Pomona College and Anthony Cook, Griffith Observatory, as appears on the Griffith Observatory’s website at http://www.griffithobservatory.org/obshist.html.
16. Eberts, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, p. 90.
17. “An History of Griffith Observatory.”
18. Ebert, Griffith Park: A Centennial History, pp. 185-186.
19. Ballin as quoted in John Mosley’s pamphlet, "The Hugo Ballin Murals at the Griffith Observatory" (Los Angeles: Published by the Griffith Observatory, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Los Angeles, 1998).
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