Selected Murals on the West Side (Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and Venice)

Westside

• Fairburn Elementary School, painted mural and tile mural (the latter done by Fairburn Elementary students). Photos taken in 2003 and 2004.

• Mike McNeilly, Lady Liberty mural, 6/2000. Wilshire, west of Westwood.

• Mike McNeilly, God Bless American mural, 9/2001. Wilshire, west of Westwood.

• G. Byron Peck, Palma, 2002. 11803 W. Pico Blvd.

• L. A. Fine Arts Squad, Isle of California, 1972. Butler, south of Santa Monica.

• John Smith, mosaic, 1000 Santa Monica blvd, near Beverly Hills. No longer there as of 4/2005.

• Bullet Train to Vegas sidewalk stencil, Westwood boulevard.

• Valerie Green, The Californians (Stackers), 2005. Urban Sprawl Project Part One. Construction fence. Westwood boulevard.

Culver City

• Francois Bardol, Desi-Lucy, 2000. Pardo Plaza.

• Francois Bardol, Culver City Police, 2000. 4040 Duquesne Ave.

• East Los Streetscapers, Moonscapes I-IV, 1979. 11400 West Washington Blvd.

• Art Mortimer, Helms Bakery mural, Washington boulevard, 2004.

• Art Mortimer and Andrea Cohen Gehring, Helms Coach Gone A Rye, Washington boulevard, 2002.

• Aliseo Art Silva, A shenere un besere velt (A Better and More Beautiful Wrold), 1998. 1525 South Robertson Boulevard, at Horner Street.

Santa Monica

• Jane Golden, Hester Street, 1981. Bay Cities Jewish Community Center, Santa Monica Blvd and 26th St.
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• Eva Cockcroft, Recycle, Renew, Restore & Repair, 1996. Michigan Ave off Olympic, near Bergamot Station.

• Adaniel Galvez, Para Los Ninos, 1993. Olympic and 14th Street.

• Construction Fence Mural, Olympic at 20th. [photographed 5/2004]

• Peace Not War mural, Highways Arts Center, Olympic and 18th, 2005.

• Duke, Nuke, Tempt, Flipt the Script, From Ancient Codices to Urban Blackbook...", 2003. 18th Street Arts Center, Olympic and 18th Street.

• Jane Golden, detail of John Muir Woods, 1978. Ocean Park and Lincoln, John Muir School. (CETA and City of Santa Monica)

• Art Mortimer, detail of Ocean Park Historical Postcards, 1980. Kensington St. at 7th, Joslyn Park. Another detail.

• Stanton MacDonald Wright, Technical and Imaginative Pursuits of Early Man, 1935. Remounted at the Santa Monica Public Library, 2006.

• Daniel Alonzo, Whale of a Mural, 1983. Ocean park Blvd underpass at 4th St.

• David S. Gordon, Unbridled, 1985. Ocean Park Blvd underpass at 4th. (Santa Monica Arts Commission and Frederick R. Weisman Foundation)

• Jane Golden, Ocean Park Pier, 1976. Ocean Park at Main. (SPARC)

• Laurence Linkus (?), Untitled, 1980. 2827 Main St., First Federal Bank.

• Art Mortimer, John Forrester, 1972 (repainted in 1983 and 1991). Hart St. at Nielson Way.

• Millard Sheets, Untitled, 1970. 2600 Wilshire at 26th St.

• Wyland, Whale mural, Santa Monica pier.

• Surf shop mural, Main Street at Bay, 2004.

• Al Quinn, murals on a pizza restaurant, 2001. Santa Monica pier.

• Murals, Santa Monica Aquarium.

• Tile Murals, SMURRF (Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility).

Venice

• Mural of lovers, alley behind a private residence.

• Frederico M. Vigil, El Quinto Sol, 1992. 685 Venice Blvd.

• Ann Elizabeth Thiermann, Nurturance, 1978. 905 Venice Blvd.

• Earth Crew, A Call to Earth's Caretakers, 1991. Gold's Gym, 360 Hampton Drive. Another detail.

• Jason Hellmann, Mural (Cat), 1996. Main and Market.

• Peter Stewart, You are not Forgotten, 1992. RTD bus yard, Pacific Ave at Sunset Court. (Private)

• Werner Loves Simone, appartment house, Pacific and 17th.

• Cafe mural, Pacific and 17th. Another detail.

• Mural, 2004. Private residence, Rialto Ave.

• Cafe Collage, Cafe Collage coffee house, Pacific and Windward

• Suzanna, View of Venice, Italy, 1997. Paesano Pizza, Pacific and Windward.

• Terry Schoonhoven, St. Charles Painting, 1979. Venice Beach Hotel, Windward at Speedway. (CAC)

• Rip Cronk, Venice Reconstituted, 1989. Detail. 25 Windward Ave at Speedway, exterior of Venice Beach Hotel. (SPARC). Another detail.

• Various artists, Seed by the Sea, 1995. Parking lot, Speedway at Market.

• Mural, Windward, opposite Venice Hotel.

• Rip Cronk, Morning Shot, 1991. Speedway and 18th Place. (David Dror)

• Venice pavilion and the Pit (pre-2000):
  • Aerosol Bandidos, North side of Venice pavilion. (as of 5/26/98)
  • SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center), Done by that cool Cat Provoke, 1997. East side of Venice Pavilion. As of (5/26/98)
  • Image of aerosol art in the Pit (5/26/98). Detail of the pit (5/26/98)

• The former Pit (post-2000):
  • Curated by In Creative Unity - Drunk with power
  • Curated by In Creative Unity - Sol festival
  • View of the former pit and graffiti walls

• Ocean Blue, Ocean Front Walk storefront.

• Tracy Lee and Arnold West, Mural, 1991. Tim's at the Beach, Brooks and Speedway.

• Emily Winters, detail from Endangered Species, 1990. 801 Ocean Front Walk and Park Ave. (SPARC) Another detail.

• Rip Cronk, Homage to a Starry Knight, 1990. Ocean Front Walk at Wavecrest. (Werner Scharff)

• Rip Cronk, Ocean Swell and Riptide, 1990. Clubhouse Ave at Ocean Front Walk (Werner Scharff)

• Rip Cronk, Venice Beach, 1990. Boardwalk

• Rip Cronk, Venice Beach Chorus Line, 2004.

• Christina Schlesinger, Chagall Returns to Venice Beach, 1996. Israel Levin Senior Citizen Center murals, sponsored by SPARC and the Jewish Federation.

• Additional public art works and murals are available on the Venice Beach public art works and sculptures page.

• You Don't Know Dick sidewalk stencil, residential alley.

• Arthur Mortimer, Brandelli's Brig, 1973. Abbot Kinney Boulevard.

10/2007