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
Lokrantz and Tri-C Program students, supervised by Bernard Hoyes. A group of students holding up a school banner.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
San Fernando Valley
Actor Edward James Olmos with Teacher Jaime Escalante. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
Mid City
James Doolin assisted by James Feruzzi and Myles Jamieson. A grand look at our sprawling metropolis at different stages of its development. The yaer 1870, depicted in the large central panel, was soon after the arrival...
Downtown LA
Ernesto de la Loza was the lead artist. Assisted by local youth. The first mural painted at Estrada Courts in ten years, it portrays (from left to right) Cesar Chavez, Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, and the Spanish...
Estrada Courts
3' x 3' concrete blocks (trompe l'oeil of Olympic monograms). Superimposed over them is a computer graphic-style screen with wrestlers competing, and helicopters spraying Malathion over La Placita in Olvera Street....
Downtown LA
A Peruvian family in traditional costumes posing with a llama in front of the ancient ruins of Macchu Picchu in Peru. There is a large Peruvian population in the San Fernando Valley. Photo © Robin Dunitz.
San Fernando Valley
Technical assistence from Dong-In Park. Also assisted by Hugh Kim, Dong-Jin Lee, Jonathan Park, and Simon Park. The mural's subject was a 16th century Korean poet and painter, and the mother of the Yi Dynasty's famous...
Mid City
Restored in 1997 by Elliot Pinkney. Photo © Isabel Rojas-Williams (last two)
South Central LA