Exploration and Colonization Charles Alston 1949

Exploration and Colonization
Charles Alston 1949
From the collection of
The Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles
Covers approximately 1527-1850, portraying African-Americans who played a significant role in California’s early period after the arrival of Europeans. Among those pictured are ex-slave/philanthropist Biddy Mason, explorer James Beckwourth, government official William Leidesdorf, and U.S Council Thomas O. Larkin.
Details
Title: Exploration and Colonization
Creator: Charles Alston
Date Created: 1949
Location: 1999 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018

The Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States

The Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles (MCLA) was founded in 1987 as a community supported organization to preserve and protect Los Angeles’ diverse and culturally historic public mural arts. It was created by a coalition of artists, public art advocates, City of Los Angeles and State of California public officials, and restoration specialists. MCLA built long-term programs to retain mural arts as a part of Los Angeles’ cultural legacy and establish murals as a significant part of the city’s cultural heritage. It advocates for the rights of artists and public art, working with artists to support the integrity of their work. MCLA promotes local artists and public murals in order to sustain Los Angeles as one of the great Mural Capitals in the United States.

Charles Alston
Nov 28, 1907 - Apr 27, 1977

Charles Henry Alston was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Alston designed and painted murals at the Harlem Hospital and the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building. In 1990 Alston's bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. became the first image of an African American displayed at the White House.
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