PC-001-959

One of the panels on the Picture Bridge, Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California

 

 

Moore, Frank M.

Poem: Blanding, Don

The "Picture Bridge" was designed by Myron Hunt and built in 1913 by the Huntington Hotel manager to bridge an arroyo between cabins. In 1932, the manager hired Frank M. Moore to paint 41 panels completed in 1933, of which one was stolen in 1987 when the main building was closed before restoration. The accompanying poem by Don Blanding, "Mojave Desert and Yucca," reads:

"I wish that I might tune my mortal ears

to catch the music that the desert hears

When breezes, stirring all the yucca flowers,

Ring carillons of ivory bells from slender towers."
The back of this card bears an armorial-type logo with the motto "En Dieu est tout" similar to that of the Earl of Strafford and others of the Wentworth family, at the top of the dividing line.

Frank M. Moore; Frank Montague Moore; Huntington Hotel; "Mojave Desert and Yucca" poem; Paintings; Poems; Don Blanding; Picture Bridge; Hotel Huntington; Hotels; Langham Huntington Hotel

1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue

California - Pasadena

 

 

MS-0008

 

 

Postcard

3.5 X 5.5 inches

No

"Wonders of California Decorate The Picture Bridge at The Langham Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California" by Susan Cohn at North American Travel Journalists Association Web site

 

 

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