There are a few life-size statues f real people in the City of Los Angeles that are out in public for the whole world to see. Some are prominently featured, some are part of larger collections, and some are hidden away for the viewer to "find." Here's the list of those of which I'm aware. Are there others in the City? in a building? a private collection?County Court House/Civic Center:
Joseph Scott
George Washington
Christopher Columbus
Staples Center:
Ervin "Magic" Johnson
Wayne Gretsky
Olvera Street:
Fr. Junipero Serra
Carlos III, King of Spain
Don Felipe de Neve
Carthay Circle:
Daniel O. McCarthy, Pioneer
Lincoln Park:
Emiliano Zapata
El Cura Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Florence Nightingale
Augustin Lara
Benito Juarez
Emperor Cuauhtemoc
Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon
Chinatown:
Jeanne d'Arc (at the French Hospital)
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
NoHo:
Amelia Earhart (in North Hollywood Park at the corner of Magnolia and Tujunga, known as Amelia Earhart Square)
Lucille Ball
Jack Benny
Johnny Carson
Jackie Gleason ("smaller than life")
Reseda:
Isaiah (at the Jewish Home for the Aging)
Mission Hills:
Father Junipero Serra (at the Mission)
Hollywood:
Charlie Chaplin
Mae West
Dorothy Dandridge
Anna May Wong
Dolores Del Rio
Marilyn Monroe ("smaller than life")
Van Nuys:
Fernando
Thomas Star Middle School:
Kneeling Native American
Venice High School
Myrna Loy (currently being restored)
Loyola High School:
St. Ignatius Loyola
Fr. Junipero Serra
LMU:
Fr. Junipero Serra
UCLA:
Jackie Robinson
Cal State LA:
Confucius
USC:
Tommy Trojan
Fray Junipero Serra
Lafayette Park:
Marquis de Lafayette
Pershing Square:
Beethoven
Mid-City:
John Wayne
Jules Bastien Lepage (LACMA)
MacArthur Park:
General MacArthur
Prometheus
General Harrison Gray Otis
San Pedro:
Stephen M. White
Griffth Park:
Col. Griffith J. Griffith
Chatsworth:
"Movie Cowboy" with lariat
Little Tokyo:
Sontuko (Kinjiro) Ninomiya - Peasant Sage of Japan
Shirnran Shonin
Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara
Besides the full-body statues above, there is a collection of busts of real people, as well, scattered across the City. Again, here is my list below; and again, fill in the missing pieces of real people made into busts:
Exposition Park:
Louis Kossuth (the Hungarian Patriot)
Civic Center:
Abraham Lincoln (Courthouse)
Benito Juárez (City Hall)
Margarita Maza Juárez (City Hall)
John Ferraro City Hall Council Chambers)
Tom Bradley (City Hall Tower)
Lincoln Park:
Abraham Lincoln
General Ignacio Zaragoza
Pancho Villa
Guadalupe Victoria
Lic. Jose Lopez Portillo
Dona Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
J. Jesus Gonzalez Ortega
Venustiano Carranza
Lazaro Cardenas del Rio
Ramon Lopez Velarde
Griffith Park:
James Dean
Leif Erikson
Transit Gateway Building:
Nick Patsouras
John Marshall High School:
John Marshall
Windsor Square:
Harold A. Henry
Miracle Mile:
Captain Allan Hancock
A.W. Ross
Pierre de Wiessant (LACMA)
Carthay Circle:
Juan Bautista de Anza
Los Angeles Urban League:
John W. Mack
Echo Park:
Jose Marti
UCLA:
Ralph Bunche
Franklin D. Murphy
USC
Rufus B. Von KleinSmid
Andres Bello
Gregor Piatigorsky
Zohrab Kaprelian
NoHo Arts District:
Danny Thomas
Bob Hope
Milton Berle
Red Skelton
Rod Serling
Eric Sevaried
Frank Stanton
Sylvester 'Pat' Weaver
Sid Ceasar
Mary Tyler Moore
Bill Cosby
Norman Lear
Ernie Kovacs
Joyce Hall
Leonard Goldenson
David Susskind
Fred Coe
Paddy Chayefsky
David Sarnoff
William S. Paley
Phil Donahue
Barbara Walters
The Library's site is also a good resource if you're looking for statues in the region.
12 comments:
UCLA law school has a bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Word has it that some bookstore in LA has the bust of Charles Bukowski. -I'm not sure which bookstore though.
UCLA Law has Lincoln, you say - that makes 3 of him Citywide!
Beverly Hills public library has a nice bust of George Benard Shaw. I think by Epstein.
That Fernando is pretty racy... looks like a studly hippie boy in Indian drag!
There's a bust of Rudolph Valentino in De Longpre park in Hollywood.
Isn't there a statue of Gilbert Lindsay at the Convention Center?
Awesome post! If memory serves I believe there used to be a statue of Gen. Pershing in Pershing Square before the gag-me redo in the early 1990s. Wonder where he went?
There's also a life-sized statue of a Civil War-era soldier in the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood but I believe it's more snonymously symbolic than person-specific.
And a couple more, namely the male and female headless pair off statuary who stand outside the L.A. Memorial Colisseum. Not sure who the model for the female was, but I believe the model for the male was water polo player Terry Shroeder who captained the 1984 U.S. Olympic water polo team.
Anybody have a photo of the Fernando statue, or do I have to drive out to Van Nuys to see it?
a few responses...
First, the original list only includes those in the City of LA (so no mention of the Berverly Hills' Shaw).
As for Valentino - the sculpture is more abstract, so I wasn't sure if I should include it since it's more of a tribute and less of a statue OF Valentino. But yes, it's there.
For Gilbert Lindsay, it's a sculpture, but not a statue. It's more of a photographic representation on a pedistal of sorts.
Not sure about General Pershing - sorry about that.
As for the figures at the National Cemetary & Colessium, there doesn't appear to be a specific person represented. I've not heard or read about the Terry Shroeder reference.
[Also, I forgot include the MANY statues of the Virgin Mary at Catholic Churches thoughout the City and the especially prominent Christ the King at Rossmore & Melrose.]
there's actually also a realistic, life-like bust of Valentino in addition to the abstract monument in De Longpre park . . .
There is an approximately 12' statue of Jesus at the Visitors' Center located on the grounds of the Mormon temple in Westwood.
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