Title Guarantee and Trust Building - Citations and Additional Resources
Introductory quotation and details on the murals come from "Mural Paintings in the Title Guarantee Building," published by the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 1931.
For more information on mural art during the 1920s boom, see 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] and “Power and Patronage: Public Art and Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles, 1928 – 1935” PhD diss., University of California San Diego, 2014.
For more information on mural art during the 1920s boom, see 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] and “Power and Patronage: Public Art and Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles, 1928 – 1935” PhD diss., University of California San Diego, 2014.
In 2013-2014 the Title Guarantee and Trust Building was renovated and redesigned as loft-style apartments and Ballin's murals were cleaned. To schedule a viewing or learn more about the apartments, contact the Title Guarantee Management Company.
The Los Angeles Conservancy also features the Title Guarantee and Trust Building in their Art Deco Walking Tour downtown.
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. Tygiel, Jules, “Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s,” in ed. Tom Sitton and William Deverell, Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), pp. 1-3.
2. Schippers, Donald J., “Walker and Eisen: Twenty Years of Los Angeles Architecture, 1920-1940,” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 4 (Dec., 1964): 371-394, quotation p. 382. See also Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, “’KEEP THE ‘L’ OUT OF LOS ANGELES’: Race, Discourse and Urban Modernity in 1920s Southern California,” Journal of Urban History vol. 34, no. 3 (November, 2007): 3-33.
3. Monica Jovanovich-Kelley, “The Apotheosis of Power: Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles during the1930s,” Public Art Dialogue vol. 4 no. 1 (Spring 2014): 42-70 [DOI:10.1080/21502552.2014.878483] and “Power and Patronage: Public Art and Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles, 1928 – 1935” PhD diss., Univeristy of California San Diego, Summer 2014.
4. Description from Arthur Millier, “Mural Painted for Bank,” Los Angeles Times (no date given), appears as clipping in a scrapbook in the Hugo Ballin Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles Young Library, UCLA, Box 29, Folder 1.
5. Ballin’s descriptions of the mural is part of his essay “Power” which appears in a scrapbook in the Ballin Papers, UCLA, Box 15, Folder 5.
6. Phrasing from Van Hook, Bailey, The Virgin and the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.
7. Details from the Los Angeles Times, May 31st, 1931 and Aug. 4th, 1929.
The Los Angeles Conservancy also features the Title Guarantee and Trust Building in their Art Deco Walking Tour downtown.
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. Tygiel, Jules, “Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s,” in ed. Tom Sitton and William Deverell, Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), pp. 1-3.
2. Schippers, Donald J., “Walker and Eisen: Twenty Years of Los Angeles Architecture, 1920-1940,” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 4 (Dec., 1964): 371-394, quotation p. 382. See also Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, “’KEEP THE ‘L’ OUT OF LOS ANGELES’: Race, Discourse and Urban Modernity in 1920s Southern California,” Journal of Urban History vol. 34, no. 3 (November, 2007): 3-33.
3. Monica Jovanovich-Kelley, “The Apotheosis of Power: Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles during the1930s,” Public Art Dialogue vol. 4 no. 1 (Spring 2014): 42-70 [DOI:10.1080/21502552.2014.878483] and “Power and Patronage: Public Art and Corporate Mural Commissions in Los Angeles, 1928 – 1935” PhD diss., Univeristy of California San Diego, Summer 2014.
4. Description from Arthur Millier, “Mural Painted for Bank,” Los Angeles Times (no date given), appears as clipping in a scrapbook in the Hugo Ballin Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles Young Library, UCLA, Box 29, Folder 1.
5. Ballin’s descriptions of the mural is part of his essay “Power” which appears in a scrapbook in the Ballin Papers, UCLA, Box 15, Folder 5.
6. Phrasing from Van Hook, Bailey, The Virgin and the Dynamo: Public Murals in American Architecture, 1893-1917 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.
7. Details from the Los Angeles Times, May 31st, 1931 and Aug. 4th, 1929.
8. See the Los Angeles Times May 31, 1931, Feb. 8th, 1931, and May 31st, 1930.
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