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
When sophmore Otis/Parsons students studying drawing with Twitchell discovered he was a well-known muralist, they insisted he show them how to do a mural. This group of self-portraits was the result. The following year...
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
From left to right: Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie (Bird) Parker, Tito Puente, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Shelly Manne, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and Duke Ellington. Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
Mexican film inspired imagery, including a portrait of James Olmos, and Graffiti style imagery. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
San Fernando Valley
A huge blow-up of Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night', one of the artist's favorite paintings. The brush stroke is purposely done in a graffiti style, partly because that is how Van Gogh painted and...
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice
Surreal landscape with levitating Navajo pottery and a cow's skull.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
Series of Zebra patterns and adrinkra (Ghanian) symbols in a cloth-like form. John Outterbridge is a sculptor, community arts activist, and the former director of the Watts Tower Arts Center. Photo 1: © Robin Dunitz....
South Central LA
Artists: John Zender Estrada, Nuke, Chose, Siner, Zuco, Scud, Cahli, Shandu, and Duce. Photos: © Isabel Rojas-Williams
East LA
Frank Romero assisted by Howard Tharpe. A downtown landscape spotlighting some of the historic old theaters on Broadway. Located at Allied Systems Auto Park (parking garage). Photo © Robin Dunitz | Photo © Isabel Rojas-...
Downtown LA
9 panels. Dedicated to the Japanese Americans of the Harbor District, this mural reflects their immigration experience, their little-known agriculture and industrial fishing contributions, their unjust treatment during...
Long Beach
A large monarch butterfly surrounded by peach trees and people harvesting peaches. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
San Fernando Valley