| Murals of Los Angeles County |
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The Los
Angeles area, designated "Mural Capital of the World," is ornamented with some 1,500 murals. |
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It is beyond the scope of this publication to list every mural in
Los Angeles County. Only a small percentage are listed here.
Visit the Mural Conservancy of
Los Angeles, SPARC,
Mural Art, and
LA
Murals (USC Archives).
Community Where Located:
Alhambra
Early California (1939) -- Mark
Keppel High School, 501 E Hellman Avenue
Boyle Heights
Advancements of Man (1976) -- 2331
Brooklyn
Corrido de Boyle Heights (1984) -- Payless Shoes, 2336 Brooklyn
No Greater Love (1992) -- Ramirez Pharmacy, 2403 Ceasar Chavez Blvd
Search For Identity (1971) -- First Street Store, 3640 E 1st St
Burbank
Burbank Industry (1942) -- Burbank
City Hall, 275 E Olive Ave
Four Freedoms (1942) -- Burbank City Hall, 275 E Olive Ave
Canoga Park
The First Spring (1942-1945) -- Sutter Jr. High, 7330 Winnetka Ave
Palomino Ponies -1840 (1942) --
Canoga Park Post Office, 21801 Sherman Way
Quests of Mankind (1940) -- Canoga Park High School, 6850 Topanga Canyon Blvd
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Carson
Delta Time (1992) -- California State
University, 1000 E Victoria St
Compton
Early California (1936) -- Compton
Post Office, 101 South Willowbrook Avenue
Ethnic Simplicity (1977) -- 124th St
Culver City
Moonscapes I-IV (1979) &
Moonscapes I-V (1987) -- 11400 W Washington Blvd
Cypress Park
Untitled -- Guadalajara Bakery,
Cypress Avenue
Untitled (1988) -- North Central Animal Care/Control, 3201 Lacy St
Eagle Rock
Peace (1990) -- Bert's Liquor, 4604
York Blvd
Transilvania (1987) -- Transilvania Market, 4554 Eagle Rock Blvd
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East Los Angeles
Aliso-Pico Pride (1990) -- Clarence
Chains of Life (1974) -- Angelus Sawdust Products, 1516 Grande Vista
Homage to Ruben Salazar (1970s) -- 4060 Whittier Blvd
The Kennedy Saga II (1973) -- City Terrace Park, 1126 N Hazard Ave
La Mujer (1976) -- 1566 Lancaster Ave
Mayan Rain God (1991) -- El Mercado, 3425 E 1st St
Mustang (1980) -- Salesian High School, 960 S Soto St
Noah's Ark -- Elias Pet Shop, 2500 E Ceasar Chavez Blvd
Ofrenda Maya (1978) -- LA Public Library, 4025 E City Terrace Dr
Plaza de la Raza -- The Learning Tree 1975, 3540 N Mission Rd
Two Flags (1973) -- Estrada Courts, 1364-6 Grade Vista Ave
Untitled -- Ramirez Mini Market, 61 Record Ave
Untitled Mural (1973) -- Estrada Courts, 1372 Grande Vista Ave
El Sereno
Loving Memory of Robert F. Kennedy
God Bless -- 4645 Huntington Dr
Encino
Early Man (1975) -- Lanai Rd School,
4241 Lanai Rd
Untitled (1977) -- Bank Building, 17107 Ventura Blvd
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Gardena
Japanese Ink Painting (1985) --
Gardena Elementary School, 647 W Gardenia Blvd
Glendale
Untitled (1991) -- Thomas Edison
Elementary School, 440 W Lomita St
Highland Park
Betty Boop (1990) -- 1000 N Avenue 50
Don't Shed the Tears of a Clown (1990) -- 5601 N Figueroa
Hollywood
Hardware (1988) -- Rampage Hardware,
5916Hollywood Blvd
Legends of Hollywood (1983) -- 1600 N Hudson
Strother Martin Monument (1972) -- 5200 Fountain Ave
Untitled (1986 -- Hollywood Bowl Self Storage, 1847 N Argyle
Hollywood Hills
Heritage (1984) -- Mt. Sinai Memorial
Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Dr
Inglewood
La Tijera Tigers (1987) -- La Tijera
Element. School, 14145 N La Tijera Blvd
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La Canada
Flintridge
La Canada High School -- 4463 Oak
Grove Dr
La Mirada
The Word (1989-1990) -- Biola
University, 13800 Biola Ave
La Puente
Red Tail Hawk (1987) -- Hurley
Elementary School, 535 S Laura Ave
Lancaster
Hauling Water Through Antelope Valley
(1940) -- 567 W Lancaster Blvd
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Long Beach
Adam and Eve or Heaven and Earth -- 1295
Gaviota Ave
Bay of Smokes (1986) -- Long Beach Airport Terminal, 4100 Donald Douglas Dr
Community of Music (1989) -- George Washington Middle School, 1450 Cedar Ave
Cal State Univ. Long Beach Mural Painting Class (1990-1992) -- 5901 E 7th St
Democratic Education (1940) -- Woodrow Wilson High School, 44 E 10th Street
El Sol Naciente (The Rising Sun) (1990) -- 1794 Cedar Street
Elevatorium (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
Flights of Fancy (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
The Great Adventure (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
Harmony (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
Healing Song (1990) -- 5901 E 7th St
King's Tower (1991-1992) -- 5901 E 7th St
Morning Serenade (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
Nature's Concert (1990) -- 5901 E 7th St
Paradise (1981) -- Sunnyside Memorial Gardens, 4725 Cherry Ave
Performing To Be (1990) -- College Intermediate School, 1890 Orange Ave
Planet Ocean -- Long Beach Arena, 300 Ocean Blvd (& Pine St)
Por Los Derechos Plenos (Rights of the People) -- 1300 Warren Ave
Preserve the Environment (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
Special Olympics (1984) -- Long Beach Recreation Center, 2800 Studebaker Rd
Student Life (1992) -- Wilson High School, 4400 E 10th St
Success (1990) -- Long Beach School for Adults, 1794 Cedar St
Tropical Birds (1991) -- 5901 E 7th St
Unity (1992) -- Drake Park Community Center, 951 Maine Ave
Untitled (1979) -- Bank Building, 249 E Ocean Blvd
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Los Angeles
Blessing of
the Animals (1974-1978) -- Leo Politi -- El Pueblo
Historic District
Buckle Up (1990) -- Steve Rose -- Hollywood Freeway
(101) at Spring St
Calle de la Eternidad (Street of Eternity) mural
(1992-1993) -- Johanna Poethig -- 351 S Broadway
City Above (1990) -- Bank Building, 660
South Figueroa Street
Designate a Driver (1992) -- Steve Rose -- Hollywood
Freeway (101) at Alameda
Ed Ruscha (1978-1987) -- Kent Twitchell -- 1031 S
Hill St
The Family Traditions Quilt (1991) -- Holmes School, 5108 Holmes Ave
Fifty One Bees (1996) -- Elizabeth Garrison & Victor
Henderson -- 755 S Wall Street
Flow Inversion (1974) -- Judith Von Euer -- 1st at
Harbor Freeway
Freedom Won't Wait (1992) -- 54th St
Fun Hut mural -- 4th & Hill on exterior of Club
Fantasy
Galileo Jupiter Apollo (1983) -- John Wehrle --
Hollywood Freeway (101) at Spring St
Generacion Tras Generacion (1988) -- Eloy Torrez --
Dearden's Furniture Store, 724 S Main St
Going to the Olympics (1984) -- Frank Romero --
Hollywood Freeway (101) at Alameda
Guadalupe and Quetzalcoatl (1991) --
St Thomas Church, Pico Boulevard
Harbor Freeway Overture (1993-1994) -- Kent
Twitchell -- Citicorp parking lot, 110 freeway north
Homage to the Downtown Movie Palaces (1990) -- Frank
Romero -- Exterior parking lot, Main St btwn 5th &
6th Streets
The Koreans (1989) -- Korean Daily New Building, 690 Wilshire Place
LA Freeway Kids (1984) -- Glenna Boltuch Avila --
Hollywood (101) Freeway, btwn Los Angeles & Main St
overpasses
L'Annunciazione (1981) -- Isabel Piczek -- Plaza
Church, El Pueblo
Libertad (1991) -- Luis Becerra -- Olvera Street
across from El Pueblo Gallery
Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market Mural (1986) --
Thomas Suriya -- Central Ave & 8th St
Luchas del Mundo (Struggles of the World) (1984 --
Willie Herron -- Hollywood Freeway (101) at Alameda
The Negro in California History -- 1999 W Adams Blvd
Peace Friendship Happiness in Our World (1989) -- 980 S Hobart Blvd
Planet Earth: Used & Abused -- Oki Dog Fast Food, 5056 Pico Boulevard
Pope of Broadway (1985) -- Victor Clothing Co., 240 S Broadway
Ravenna Mosaics (1926) -- Mosaic -- Subway Terminal
Building, 417 Hill St
Recuerdos de Ayer, Suenos de Manana (Remembrances of
Yesterday, Dreams of Tomorrow) (1982) -- Judith
Hernandez -- Brunswig Garage, Spring Street
Reina de Mexico mural -- North side of Plaza Church,
facing parking lot
Stations of the Cross (1933) -- Precious Blood Church, 435 S Occidental Blvd
Untitled (1931) -- Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd
Untitled (1970s) -- La Villa Market, 2214-2226 San Pedro St
Untitled (1977) -- Torricilla's Embroidery, 2100 S Maple Ave
Untitled (1984) -- Los Angeles Sentinel Building, 4300 Central Ave
Untitled Coke mural -- Variety Arts Center, Olympic
& Flower
Untitled -- Jeff Greene -- Subway Terminal Building
exterior, 4th St
Untitled -- near the Convention Center on Pico
Various murals -- Victor Clothing Company, 242 S
Broadway
Manhattan Beach
Dream of the Young Artist (1991) --
Pacific School, 1200 Pacific Ave
Mission Hills
Twelve Tribes of Ancient Israel (1959) --
Eden Memorial Park, 11500 S Sepulveda Blvd
Montebello
Untitled (1972) --
Former Home Savings/Washington Mutual,
2201 Beverly Blvd
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Montecito Heights
EarthWind and Fire (1990) -- Crittenton
Center, 234 E Avenue 33
North Hollywood
Social Harmony Flourishes) -- Mutual
Understanding, 7040 N Radford
Untitled (1991) -- El Mexicano Restaurant, 1601 Sotel Blvd
Great Wall of Los Angeles (1983) -- Coldwater Canyon
Blvd (about 5800 block) between Burbank & Oxnard Blvds
Pacoima
#2 late (1970s) -- Roger Jessup Park,
12467 W Osborne St
Richie Valens (1985) -- Pacoima Jr. High School, 9919 Laurel Canyon Blvd
Untitled (1975) -- Pacoima Public Library, 13605 Van Nuys Blvd
Untitled (1983) -- 12901 Pierce St
San Pedro
Breaching Whale (1976) -- Pt. Fermin
Cetacean Building., 807 Paseo Del Mar
Gray Boat Green Bridge Twilight (1990) -- 601 S Palos Verdes
Life & Travels of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1938) -- 1501 Cabrillo Ave
Mail Transportation (1938) -- San Pedro Post Offfice, 839 S Beacon
Santa Fe Springs
Untitled (1978) -- Neighborhood Center
for Social Services, 9255 Pioneer Blvd
Santa Monica
John Muir Woods (1978) -- John Muir
School, 2526 6th St
Untitled (1981) -- 702 Pier Ave
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South Central Los Angeles
Apartment house mural --
Southwest corner Budlong & Jefferson
Bienvenidos a la Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina
de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (1984) -- Jose Luis
Gonzalez & others -- 3965 S Vermont (at Leighton)
Cecil (1989) -- Richard Wyatt -- Watts Towers Arts
Center, 1727 E 107th St
Ceremony for Smokers (1991) -- Elliott Pinkney --
Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 E 107th St
Chabelita Tacos (1985-1990) -- Juan Hector Ponce --
Western at 20th
Driving School mural -- Venice & 4th Ave
Erase the Hate...Through the Eyes of a Child There
is No Color (1998) -- Duce & others -- Budlong,
south of Adams
Genocidal Tendencies (1990) -- Ian White -- 6th Ave
at Jefferson
History of Women in the Labor Movement in California
(1991) -- Eva Cockcroft -- Southern California
Library for Social Studies & Research, 6120 Vermont
Ave (between 61st & 62nd streets)
Iglesia de Dios -- World Impact, Vermont & 20th
LA Bridges at Foshay -- Duce & others -- Western &
27th
La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra (1996) -- Judith F Baca
-- USC Topping Student Center
LA-Berlin Exchange -- Vermont & 88th
Labor Solidarity Has No Borders (1990) -- Mike
Alewitz -- Southern California Library for Social
Studies & Research, 6120 Vermont Ave (between 61st &
62nd streets)
Life Line: Creating Healthy Community (1992-1993) --
David Fichter -- Vermont & 30th
Liquor store mural -- Northeast corner Budlong &
Jefferson
Love is For Everyone (1991) -- Mary Linn Hughes &
Reginald Larue Zachary -- 5149 W Jefferson Blvd
Madonna -- Panaderia front patio
Madonna -- Restaurant parking lot, Hoover &
Washington Streets
Mural (1937) -- Jean Goodwin -- USC Science Hall
Mural of Divine Grace -- Vermont & 65th
The Children of Mid-City (1994?) -- Rozzell Sykes --
Adams at Arlington
To Protect & Serve (1995) -- Noni Olabisi --
Jefferson & 11th Ave
Transportation Brought Art to the People (1976) --
Ulysses Jenkins -- 3500 S Hope St
Untitled (1991) -- David Mosley, Eddie Orr, Norman
Maxwell, Michael McKenzie, Marvin Hunt -- 2301
Jefferson Blvd (at 3rd Ave) - Jefferson Park
Untitled (1984) -- Compton Avenue
Elementary School, 1515 E 104th St
Untitled -- Adams & Budlong
Young People of Watts (1991-1993) -- Cristina
Cardenas, Willowbrook and 107th
Western Heights Community murals -- Gramercy at
Washington
Torrance
Untitled (1980) -- Bank Building, 2121
Torrance Blvd
Tujunga
The Rd To Success (1989) -- Pinewood
Avenue School, 10111 Silverton Ave
Untitled (1978) -- Bank Building, 6589 Foothill Blvd
Van Nuys
Ocean Scene (1982) -- Van Nuys Main
Post Office, 15071 Sherman Way
Untitled (1976) -- Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Recreation Center, 14201 Huston St
Venice
Morning Shot (1991) -- Muscle Beach
Hair & Nail, 1811 Ocean Front Walk
St. Charles Painting (1979) -- St Mark's Restaurant, 23 Windward Ave
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West Hollywood
Fairfax Community Mural (1985) --
People's Market Building, Fairfax Ave between Oakwood & Rosewood Ave
Whittier
Untitled (1937) -- East Whittier Middle
School, 14421 E Whittier Blvd
Woodland Hills
Sites of Los Angeles (1985+) -- Taft High School,
Administration Building,
5461 Winnetka Ave
The
first mural in Los Angeles was Juan Antonio’s The Fourteen
Stations of the Cross, painted in 1806 at the San Fernando
Mission.
Environmental
marine artist Wyland completed the 122,000 square foot mural "Planet
Ocean" on the Long Beach Arena in 1992. For three years, the mural,
featuring life-sized images of gray whales and dolphins, was the largest in the
world. It was bested in size in 1995 by Colorado’s Levee Project mural at
almost 180,000 square feet.
The Great Wall of Los
Angeles is a half mile-long mural painted on one of the concrete sides
of the Tujunga Wash portraying the history of California from the perspective of women and people of color.
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