MCLA maintains a FREE database of Los Angeles' Mural History linking artists, murals and neighborhoods. The foundation of this database was shaped by Robin Dunitz' book "Street Gallery", the first true compilation of Los Angeles public murals. The MCLA website allows submissions of murals created recently in Los Angeles, forming an ever growing archive joining the historic with the new.
To email your submissions, please send high resolution digital images along with the name of artist(s), location, year size and medium to: murals@muralconservancy.org
Artists: Isabel Mora, Jerry Rodriguez, and Andy Ledesma. Divided into three distinct views of religious significance. The middle scene depicts Jesus Christ falling as he carried the cross. The scene also shows the grief...
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3 panels. Title: The Three Laws (Las Tres Leyes). Artist: Roberto Rubalcava and Ernesto de la Loza with local youth. A triptych: the law of the street, the law of the land, and the Divine Law. The artists interacted...
San Fernando Valley
Vignettes of four brides in different wedding scenarios. Photo © Grace Lane Gallery.
Downtown LA
Done in honor of the 500-year anniversary of the meeting of the old and new worlds and cultures. Shown are native plants of the Americas using Aztec and Mayan symbols, Chumash astrological imagery, and a western...
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
One of the best-known extant examples of early local street art. Done at the site where Herrón's younger brother was stabbed by local gang members, the image show two youths with cracked heads coming through the...
East LA
Title: Muro que Habla, Canta y Grita (“The Wall That Speak, Sings, and Shouts”). Photo: © Stephen L. Williams 2011
East LA
Fifteen young art students, all life-size, stand looking out at the viewer on an east-facing wall below Junior Art Gallery.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Hollywood, Silverlake, Echo Park
The left half of this mural was painted out in 1994, including a portrait of artist John Outterbridge. The mural is a salute to people who have served the community. Still in place are portraits of a Latina grandmother...
South Central LA
Eliot Pinkney with 38 Summer Youth Employment Training Program youth. 10 panels.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Long Beach