Artist:
George Stanley
Title:
Law Liberty Justice Freedom
Year:
1958
Adress:
600 E. Broadway
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In a profile from 1930, Stanley was described as 'impossibly modest,' a sentiment echoed by his grandson. 'My grandmother said he was acknowledged at the first Academy Awards ceremony,' says Vincent Stanley. 'And he hid behind a plant.' Stanley died in 1970 and outside of the nearly 3,000 copies of his statuette handed out by the Academy, very little of his work still exists. In 1950 the students of Hoover High School in Glendale commissioned a 10-foot long woodcarving depicting the missions, the gold rush, and covered wagons to mark California’s centennial.
Today the whereabouts of that piece are unknown. Most of the building representatives I spoke to for this story had no idea who Stanley was or that they owned his art. One property recently replaced his carved doors with plain ones during a remodel. 'It’s unfortunate people don’t understand the value when they’re taking something down,' said Stanley’s daughter Deborah Smith. 'They want to do it quick and not take the time to figure out what things are.' A handful of pieces are still in the family, a few have shown up at auction, and the ones below are preserved in situ, preserved as part of the buildings they were designed for.
Hollywood Bowl
2301 Highland Ave., Los Angeles [1929, Allied Architects; 2004, Hodgetts + Fung]
The monumental sculpture at the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl was unveiled in 1940 and titled 'Muse of Music, Dance, Drama.' It features a cascading wall of water longer than an Olympic length swimming pool. Glendale County building
600 E Broadway, Glendale [1959, Arthur Wolfe]
The terra cotta wall mural 'Liberty, Justice, and Freedom' adorns the county courthouse in Glendale with an open law book, the scales of justice, and laurel wreaths.
Bullocks Wilshire
3050 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles [1929, Parkinson and Parkinson]
The super stylized bas-relief near the Wilshire entrance to Los Angeles’s most elegant art deco department store sits above the quote 'To build a business that will never know completion.'
www.wikipedia.org:
George Maitland Stanley (April 26, 1903 – May 11, 1970) was an American sculptor. He designed the Academy Award of Merit, also known as the Oscar, as well as sculpting the Muse Statue at the Hollywood Bowl.
In a profile from 1930, Stanley was described as 'impossibly modest,' a sentiment echoed by his grandson. 'My grandmother said he was acknowledged at the first Academy Awards ceremony,' says Vincent Stanley. 'And he hid behind a plant.' Stanley died in 1970 and outside of the nearly 3,000 copies of his statuette handed out by the Academy, very little of his work still exists. In 1950 the students of Hoover High School in Glendale commissioned a 10-foot long woodcarving depicting the missions, the gold rush, and covered wagons to mark California’s centennial.
Today the whereabouts of that piece are unknown. Most of the building representatives I spoke to for this story had no idea who Stanley was or that they owned his art. One property recently replaced his carved doors with plain ones during a remodel. 'It’s unfortunate people don’t understand the value when they’re taking something down,' said Stanley’s daughter Deborah Smith. 'They want to do it quick and not take the time to figure out what things are.' A handful of pieces are still in the family, a few have shown up at auction, and the ones below are preserved in situ, preserved as part of the buildings they were designed for.
Hollywood Bowl
2301 Highland Ave., Los Angeles [1929, Allied Architects; 2004, Hodgetts + Fung]
The monumental sculpture at the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl was unveiled in 1940 and titled 'Muse of Music, Dance, Drama.' It features a cascading wall of water longer than an Olympic length swimming pool. Glendale County building
600 E Broadway, Glendale [1959, Arthur Wolfe]
The terra cotta wall mural 'Liberty, Justice, and Freedom' adorns the county courthouse in Glendale with an open law book, the scales of justice, and laurel wreaths.
Bullocks Wilshire
3050 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles [1929, Parkinson and Parkinson]
The super stylized bas-relief near the Wilshire entrance to Los Angeles’s most elegant art deco department store sits above the quote 'To build a business that will never know completion.'
www.wikipedia.org:
George Maitland Stanley (April 26, 1903 – May 11, 1970) was an American sculptor. He designed the Academy Award of Merit, also known as the Oscar, as well as sculpting the Muse Statue at the Hollywood Bowl.