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Redlands History

 

1940

Brasz, Arnold

 

Five lunettes. First, background: is of trees, foreground: two men stacking boxes with something in them, warm yellow colors. Second, background: warm red mountains and a pueblo like structure, middle ground: an elder hispanic women walking and a hispanic men in a white hat in a cart being pulled by two horses/donkeys, foreground: a hispanic man sitting is on a wall playing a guitar in a black hat, warm colors with lots of red tones. Third, background: pueblo like structure, foreground: three hispanic men and one hispanic women performing farming activities such as carrying and tilling the land, warm colors with warm red colors. Fourth, tree branches with leaves behind and intertwined with the letter "R", maybe representing tthe Redlands, warm red colors. Fifth, one man in native american dress and one in "cowboy" dress, both holding rifles, walking through a rocky dessert with cattle, warm yellow colors. In bottom cornersof all five lunettes written is W.P.A, the year and the artist.

Agency: Federal Art Project

Murals

Redlands City Hall, now Redlands Historical Museum, 30 Cajon Street, Redlands, California 92373

California - Redlands

Photographs used with permission of photographer.

 

 

 

 

Wood parquetry

 

Yes

Photographed by Jeffrey Smith on 02/26/2008

 

 

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