MCLA maintains a FREE database of Los Angeles' Mural History linking artists, murals and neighborhoods. The foundation of this database was shaped by Robin Dunitz' book "Street Gallery", the first true compilation of Los Angeles public murals. The MCLA website allows submissions of murals created recently in Los Angeles, forming an ever growing archive joining the historic with the new.
To email your submissions, please send high resolution digital images along with the name of artist(s), location, year size and medium to: muralconservancyLA@gmail.com
4 Panels. Images of local history: Gabrielino village located near where the school is today; Spanish colonization, which began with the arrival of the Portola expedition (1769); Rancho San Rafeal, a mile north of the...
East LA
The mosaic is integrated into 16 precast concrete bas-reliefs along three walls.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice
Traditional healers as well as doctors are pictured. The mural is just inside the school's front door.photo © Robin Dunitz
East LA
"Consisting of 12 Masonite panels, the mural is divided into three sections. The first section depicts the history from "prehistoric man through the classical world," while section two illustrates "the development of...
East San Gabriel Valley
Lifestyle of the local Native Americans before the arrival of the Europeans. Artists: Kat Kozik and David Stauch. Photo: © Robin Dunitz
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice
Artist: Designed by Helen Lundelberg, assisted by Donald Totten. A parade of life-size figures beginning with the early Native American and Spanish horsemen to the pre-World War II period of turbo-prop planes....
South Central LA
Female marathon runner crossing the finish line, breaking through a wall. Restoration by SPARC completed January 3, 2013. Photo: © Robin Dunitz | Photo © Hanh Nguyen (last image after restoration)
Downtown LA
Title: Hog Heaven (a.k.a Pig Paradise)
Artist: Les Grimes and Arno Jordan
Grimes painted frolicking pigs on the factory walls for 11 years before falling to his death from a scaffold in 1968. Jordan was hired to...
South Central LA
