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
These murals, mounted above the platform benches, examine the history of Compton with particular emphasis on the arrival of the various ethnic groups that have contributed to the character of the city. Included are a...
South Central LA
The interior historical mural begins on the far left with Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Also portrayed are the 2000-year-old Code of Hammurabi, the four freedoms granted by the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta...
South Central LA
Unemployed people waiting for relief paychecks, getting their money, shopping for groceries, finding jobs, and doing government work. This is one of the only local New Deal murals that makes reference to the difficult...
West LA, Santa Monica, Venice
Assisted by: Bobby Yi, Jezreel Balajadia, Rod Parong, Rogelio Galang, and Alen Terre. The Untited States, represented as a woman with a torch, is welcoming immigrants to building California. Sponsored and commissioned...
Mid City
East Los Streetscapers: (David Botello, Wayne Healy, George Yepes. Assisted by Paul Botello, David Morin, and Ismael Cazarez) A corrido is a traditional, ballad-style Mexican song. In this mural, local musician...
East LA
Private Residence. Image has since been destroyed. Photo: © John Wehrle
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Environmental mural warning of the danger of nuclear war.
Photo: © Robin Dunitz
Long Beach
Potpourri of shapes, primarely in blue and brownish red. Photo © Ian Robertson-Salt
Estrada Courts