After a morning's worth of admin at USC; after going with Alice for her radiation zapping, we headed off for extraordinarily good pizza at Triple Beam Pizza in Highland Park, and sat in the warm sun (such a change after December in England ...) - and wandered around N. Figueroa (only later did I discover that there's a whole self-guided walk brochure for the district available on line: we'll be back ...). This Chase bank occupies the site for the original 1906 bank in Highland Park - it was remodeled in the early 1970s as a branch of the Home Savings of America bank, and the murals (two very different sets of horses) are by Millard Sheets. I suspect Sheets' work is best known by what it represents rather than by the name of the artist - he's responsible for a good deal of public art, and not just in California: Notre Dame's huge (and rather weird) mosaic, Touchdown Jesus (not exactly its official title) is by him, too.
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