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County CollectionBob Hope Patriotic HallArtist:
A. J. Leitner
Date:
1942
Region:
Downtown LA
District:
First
Location:
Bob Hope Patriotic Hall
1816 S Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90015 Department:
Military & Veterans Affairs
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Project DescriptionSoldiers and Sailors is a three panel painted mural in the vestibule of Bob Hope Patriotic Hall. Created in 1942 as part of the WPA Art Project, the mural depicts the United States’ military uniforms from 1776 through 1941. Helen Lundeberg also created three WPA murals in 1942 for Patriotic Hall but those have since been lost. About the ArtistAurel Joel Leitner was born in 1898 in Hungary and came to the United States in the 1920s to start his career as a concert pianist. Tragically, his musical aspirations were ended when he lost his arm in an automobile accident. He became a painter and moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s. In addition to his mural at Patriotic Hall, Leitner exhibited at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition and assisted Helen Lundeberg with her WPA Venice High School mural. Leitner died in 1957. |
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