ART AND ARCHITECTURE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ART AND ARCHITECTURE SELF-GUIDED TOUR

Welcome to the USC Art and Architecture self- guided tour. From the Romanesque architecture of Doheny Memorial Library to the Zen-like abstraction of Woods Davy’s stone-and-steel sculpture, from gargoyles representing Greek philosophers to the politically charged work of contemporary artists Jenny Holzer and Judy Baca, USC invites you to engage with its enduring legacy of public art and architecture.

This guide will introduce you to the buildings, sculptures, fountains, murals, galleries and architectural details that have shaped the University’s unique physical and cultural growth since its inception. The tour enables you to walk at your own pace while taking in the beauty of the University Park campus. We hope you find this tour a memorable and thought-provoking part of your visit to USC.

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ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 2 DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY INDEX NUMBERS CORRESPOND TO THE MAP ON PAGES 12–13 1 Widney Alumni House ZUMBERGE HALL 2 DOHENY MEMORIAL DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 26 Youth and Science LIBRARY 1932 2 Doheny Memorial Library HARRIS HALL AND HARRIS HALL SAMUEL E. LUNDEN (1897–1995) SCULPTURE PARK 3 Shakespeare and Dante ARCHITECTURE 4 Doheny Memorial Library Archway 27 Hercules Bordered by Alumni Park to the West, 5 The Written Word Passeth on the 28 Exterior Fresco Childs Way to the South Torch of Wisdom 29 Crouching Bather Gift of E. L. Doheny 6 Doheny Memorial Library Stained 30 First Amendment (Blacklist Project) Glass Windows WATT HALL AND 1 WIDNEY ALUMNI Created as a memorial to USC 7 Petrified Wood SURROUNDING AREA HOUSE 1880 trustee and alumnus Edward L. 8 Youth Triumphant 31 Untitled 4 (Mark Lere) E. F. KYSOR (1835–1907 ) and Doheny, Jr., Doheny Memorial Library HANCOCK FOUNDATION BUILDING 32 Nuevo Kiora OCTAVIUS MORGAN (1850–1922) was the University’s first freestanding 9 Bas-Relief of Animals and Plants 33 Untitled (John Frame) ARCHITECTURE library and has since become an 34 Robert Graham Figures TOWN & GOWN West of Figueroa Street, at Pardee Way intellectual and cultural center of 35 On Saturdays and Childs Way 10 Little Chapel of Silence the campus. The Romanesque VITERBI MUSEUM GALEN CENTER USC’s first building, the two-story architecture and opulent interiors 36 Viterbi Museum Ceiling Murals 11 Galen Center Exterior Murals Widney House served as classroom of this early USC building make it SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING PLAZA BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING space for the University’s inaugural a popular location for film and 37 Fountain by Pascal 12 Bovard Administration Building class of 53 students. Through several television shoots. Notable among 13 Central Tower Sculptures CINEMATIC ARTS COMPLEX relocations and restorations, it has many distinctive details are the CAMPUS CENTER AND HAHN PLAZA 38 Douglas Fairbanks retained its original 1880s charm, bronze doors, marble rotunda, 39 Eadweard J. Muybridge 14 Trojan Shrine (“Tommy Trojan”) greeting visitors as they enter through stained-glass windows depicting six 15 Traveler ANNA BING ARNOLD PLAZA AND the University’s ceremonial gate. 16 Bust of Norman Hawkins Topping SCULPTURE GARDEN 40 GWYNN WILSON STUDENT UNION Evelia de Pie 41 Vista for a Rare Spirit 17 Seated Knowledge 42 Bust of Gregor Piatigorsky 18 Student Activities 43 Hephaestus RONALD TUTOR CAMPUS CENTER 44 University Religious Center 19 The Trojan Family Tapestry TAPER HALL 20 Jinks Room Mural 45 Trojan Column 21 Dart Aphrodite MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES BRIDGE MEMORIAL HALL 46 USC Fisher Museum of Art 22 Exterior Sculptures 47 Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery BLOOM WALK 48 Helen Lindhurst Architecture Gallery 23 George Tirebiter 49 Viterbi Museum MUDD HALL OF PHILOSOPHY 50 Hugh M. Hefner Hall 51 Frank Sinatra Hall 24 Mudd Hall of Philosophy 52 Superhighway 25 Mosaics of Philosophers

2 INDEX | ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 3 of the world’s great scholars, and the south side, top to bottom, left to Roman travertine floors and stairway. right: 1) Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, University of California, Heidelberg; 2) St. Thomas Aquinas, Stanford, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos de Lima; 3) Philosopher Francis Bacon, Princeton, Universidad Nacional de Mexico.

of the zodiac, Conradi’s relief depicts 6 STAINED GLASS a teacher instructing his students WINDOWS 1931 from a scroll that displays the WILBUR HERBERT BURNHAM symbols for alpha and omega— (1913–1984) 3 SHAKESPEARE AND the sum of all knowledge. Hayward’s ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL Main Hall DANTE 1931 mosaics depict Hercules bearing the JOSEPH CONRADI (1867–1936) immortal fruit of the Hesperides on Inspired by 15th-century English glass, FAÇADE SCULPTURES the left, and Alexander cutting the Wilbur Herbert Burnham designed Main Entrance Gordian knot on the right. the stained glass in the main hall of The great poets Dante and the Doheny Memorial Library. Each Shakespeare gaze out from niches window bears three medallions, the on either side of the library’s main topmost representing an important entrance. Born in Switzerland, philosopher, the middle depicting 7 PETRIFIED WOOD sculptor Joseph Conradi came to the the seal of an American university East side of Doheny Memorial Library U.S. in 1887 and created sculptures and the lowermost bearing the seal ARTIFACT for the Library of Congress, of a foreign university. A border of Gift of the Class of 1887 Los Angeles City Hall, the Los laurel, symbolizing honor and reward, This wood, turned by time into stone Angeles Times building, St. Vincent frames each medallion. Appropriate (or petrified), was presented to USC Catholic Church, and various U.S. 5 THE WRITTEN WORD dates are woven into the quarry by the Class of 1887, under the state houses. PASSETH ON THE TORCH backgrounds, where the pen and direction of Professor John Dickinson OF WISDOM 1931 inkwell symbolize letters and the lamp of the Department of Geology. It was 4 ARCHWAY 1931 SAMUEL ARMSTRONG (1893–1971) symbolizes knowledge. part of Arizona’s Petrified Forest, JOSEPH CONRADI (1867–1936) and MURAL which holds tree fossils more than Treasure Room ROGER HAYWARD (1899–1979) north side, top to bottom, left 200 million years old. MURAL AND RELIEF COMPOSITION First floor to right: 1) Socrates, Harvard, Main Entrance This mural honoring the history of University of Paris ; 2) Plato, College The imagery of this beautiful archway the written word adorns a frieze in of William and Mary, Trinity College, captures the depth and breadth of the Doheny Library Treasure Room, Dublin; 3) Aristotle, Northwestern learning that has become the hallmark located on the library’s first floor, to University, Oxford University. of a USC education. Under a mosaic the right at the top of the main stairs.

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includes this Little Chapel of Silence, dedicated as an addition to the Town 9 BAS-RELIEF OF & Gown Foyer, and the USC Fisher ANIMALS AND PLANTS Museum of Art. 1940 ROBERT MERRELL GAGE GALEN CENTER 8 YOUTH TRIUMPHANT 1935 (1892–1981) FREDERICK SCHWEIGARDT SCULPTURE (1885–1948) Alan Hancock Foundation Building FOUNTAIN The bas-relief sculptures cast into 12 BOVARD Alumni Park the walls of the building feature the ADMINISTRATION Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert plant and animal life of the West BUILDING 1921 Carman-Ryles Coast of the Pacific Basin, as well as JOHN PARKINSON (1861–1935) Presented to USC by Mr. and Mrs. Pleistocene-era mammals discovered ARCHITECTURE Robert Carman-Ryles in memory of in the La Brea Tar Pit excavations. West Side of Alumni Park their son, alumnus Edward L. Prentiss, Under the direction of scientists, USC One of the most iconic and this fountain represents triumphant professor of sculpture Robert Merrell recognizable structures on the USC youth atop kneeling female figures Gage carefully built this 1¼ life-size campus, Bovard was designed by symbolizing community, home, reproduction of Pleistocene creatures 11 GALEN CENTER Los Angeles architect John Parkinson school and church. The original was from a series of concrete forms. EXTERIOR MURALS 2006 in a Northern Italian Renaissance designed by German-born, Southern DEAN TSCHETTER and style that would be echoed California-based artist Frederick TOWN & GOWN JAY TSCHETTER throughout USC’s other buildings. Schweigardt and shown at the CARVED BRICK MURALS Bovard is named for George Finley 1935 California Pacific International 10 LITTLE CHAPEL OF Jefferson Boulevard & Figueroa Street, Bovard, USC’s fourth president off campus Exposition as the Four Cornerstones SILENCE 1936 (1903–1921), who performed the of American Democracy. Damaged ARCHITECT UNKNOWN These seven brick exterior murals ceremonial groundbreaking in 1919. by falling trees in 1976, this second ARCHITECTURE are among the largest in the world, version was recast and reinstalled in Town & Gown Foyer measuring 46' by 11'. Artist Dean 1979 with the financial support of the Gift of Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Tschetter and his brother, sculptor Trojan League of Los Angeles. In 1936, Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Jay Tschetter, here depict athletic and became the first woman to join the artistic pursuits in the social-realist USC Board of Trustees. Her legacy style of the late 1930s.

6 ALUMNI PARK | HANCOCK FOUNDATION BUILDING | TOWN & GOWN ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 7 GALEN CENTER | BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING of personalism, which emphasizes conscious experience as the starting point of reflection.

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14 TROJAN SHRINE (“TOMMY TROJAN”) 1930 ROGER NOBLE BURNHAM 13 CENTRAL TOWER (1876–1962) SCULPTURES 1921 BRONZE STATUE 15 TRAVELER 2010 author, sculptor and professor of JOHAN CASPAR LACHNE Outside Bovard Administration RONALD PEKAR neurological surgery at the USC Building in Hahn Plaza GRUENFELD (1872–1954) SCULPTURE School of Medicine. FAÇADE SCULPTURES Dedicated in 1930 to honor the USC Hahn Plaza, across from Bovard Administration Building Tommy Trojan semicentennial, the Trojan Shrine was GWYNN WILSON STUDENT UNION Gift of USC President Steven B. Sample At the corners of Bovard’s central modeled after USC football players and Mrs. Kathryn Sample tower stand eight figures designed to represent an athletic, physical ideal, by the University’s Board of Trustees as well as the five traits of an ideal This life-size bronze statue honors and representing “the progress Trojan inscribed on its base: faithful, “Traveler,” the mount of a Trojan warrior of civilization.” scholarly, skillful, courageous and and the USC mascot who made his ambitious. “Tommy Trojan” performs first appearance at a 1961 football east side, left to right: John Wesley, the physically impossible: flexing game. He has been gracing USC founder of Methodism; Matthew every muscle in his body at once. Trojans with good luck ever since. Simpson, Methodist bishop, friend The statue was given in memory of of Abraham Lincoln and the first Mrs. Sample’s grandparents. president of DePauw University. north side, left to right: U.S. 16 BUST OF NORMAN 17 SEATED KNOWLEDGE 1927 presidents Abraham Lincoln and HAWKINS TOPPING PETER KRASNOW (1886–1979) Theodore Roosevelt. Re-dedicated in 2010 Built by GLADDING-MCBEAN & CO. DECORATIVE ARCHWAY west side, left to right: Roman EMIL SELETZ (1907–1999) orator and statesman Cicero and SCULPTURE Main Entrance on Trousdale Parkway the Greek philosopher Plato. Intersection of Trousdale Parkway Created in the form of a terra-cotta and Downey Way south side, left to right: Phillips grill, this piece features the classical Gift of Emil Seletz Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts, Greek representation of Knowledge, best known for writing “O Little This bust honors Norman Hawkins flanked by two students bearing Town of Bethlehem”; and Borden Topping, MD, who served USC the University seal. The recreational Parker Browne, former professor as president (1958–1970) and activities of college youth fill out of philosophy at Boston University chancellor (1971–1980). Artist the archway. and primary American advocate Emil Seletz was a neurosurgeon,

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18 STUDENT ACTIVITIES JOHN B. PARKINSON (1861–1935) and DONALD D. PARKINSON (1895–1945) 21 DART APHRODITE Built by GLADDING-MCBEAN & CO. c. 100 BCE to 100 CE EXTERIOR TERRA-COTTA CARVINGS known for his series of tapestries ARTIST UNKNOWN, Greco-Roman Gwynn Wilson Student Union Building at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the SCULPTURE Designed by John Parkinson and Angels in Downtown Los Angeles. Ronald Tutor Campus Center his son Donald and executed by Gift of Stephen Dart, G. Michael Dart and Jane Dart Tucker Gladding-McBean, these carvings depict, often whimsically, the This rare and beautiful Greco-Roman scholarly and athletic pursuits marble sculpture of Aphrodite’s head integral to university life. is from the ancient Roman colonial city of Arles, France. It is one of RONALD TUTOR CAMPUS CENTER two known Arles-type heads of 22 EXTERIOR SCULPTURES 20 JINKS ROOM MURAL 1914 the Goddess of Love. The other is 1928 19 THE TROJAN FAMILY MAYNARD DIXON (1875–1946) housed in the Louvre Museum JOHN B. PARKINSON (1861–1935) TAPESTRY 2010 MURAL in Paris. and DONALD D. PARKINSON JOHN NAVA (1947–) Ronald Tutor Campus Center (1895–1945) TAPESTRY Gift of the McCaslin Family FAÇADE SCULPTURES Ronald Tutor Campus Center Originally commissioned by the These figures seem to capture USC’s Commissioned by Ronald Tutor daughter of Arcadia’s first mayor, these scholar-athlete tradition. Students Campus Center Art and murals hung in the Jinks Room of the seated with oversized books occupy Trojan Traditions Anoakia Mansion, site of numerous perches on either side of the main Southern California-based artist celebrity-filled parties. These six pieces entrance, while a football player in John Nava visited USC on many of the nine-piece work were acquired helmet and shoulder pads kneels occasions to sense the spirit of by the USC Fisher Museum of Art atop the left pillar, cradling an campus life for this tapestry. It when the mansion was demolished oversized pigskin. The father-and-son contains 21 life-size figures drawn in 1998. An important 20th-century architectural team of John B. and from USC students, faculty and staff artist whose work focused on the Donald D. Parkinson designed many against a background representing American West, Maynard Dixon was of Los Angeles’s finest buildings in the documents from the collections of married to the influential documentary 1920s and 1930s, including USC’s the USC Libraries. Nava is best photographer Dorothea Lange. Bovard Administration Building.

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35 EXPOSITION BOULEVARD FIGUEROA STREET BLOOM WALK MUDD HALL OF PHILOSOPHY ZUMBERGE HALL AND HOOSE LIBRARY Adorning Mudd Hall are several gargoyles, including the whimsical carved figure of Greek philosopher Diogenes, who holds a lamp over the entrance to the south wing. Diogenes is said to have carried a lamp even in daylight, in search of an honest man.

25 MOSAICS OF PHILOSOPHERS 1930 RALPH CARLIN FLEWELLING (1894–1975) MOSAIC Mudd Hall of Philosophy, Hoose Library, 2nd Floor

USC’s first professor of philosophy, Dr. Ralph Tyler Flewelling, supplied 23 GEORGE TIREBITER 2006 the subject matter and inscription MICHAEL DAVIS (1948–) for these mosaics, which were SCULPTURE/BENCH 24 MUDD HALL OF designed by his son, architect Ralph 26 YOUTH AND SCIENCE 1937 Bloom Walk and Trousdale Parkway PHILOSOPHY 1930 Carlin Flewelling. They depict the JEAN GOODWIN AMES (1903–1986) Gift of the Bloom Family RALPH CARLIN FLEWELLING succession of philosophic ideas from MURAL This gathering place honors the (1894–1975) the Greeks through the 19th century, Zumberge Hall first in a line of feisty mutts who ARCHITECTURE including the Eastern philosophies of Gift of the Artist became beloved Trojan mascots Exposition Boulevard and Buddha and Confucius. Jean Goodwin Ames created this Trousdale Parkway in the 1940s and 1950s. The first tile mural as her MFA thesis project Tirebiter wandered onto the USC Predominately pre-Renaissance at USC. She went on to create campus sometime around 1940 and Tuscan in design and one of USC’s murals for public spaces throughout was named for his habit of chasing most beautiful buildings, the two-story, Southern California, and in 1958 was cars down the former University red-brick Mudd Hall of Philosophy named Woman of the Year in Art by Avenue, biting at their tires. In 1958, combines elements of Romanesque, the Los Angeles Times. While at a student election officially ousted Byzantine and arabesque decoration. USC, she met her future husband, George Tirebiter IV as campus It is trimmed in cast stone, roofed painter Arthur Ames, with whom she mascot. Nevertheless, during football in tile and built around three sides enjoyed a long artistic collaboration. season, students and alumni can be of a courtyard containing a central found touching the statue’s cast- fountain, with an open cloister running bronze football for good luck. along the fourth side. A clock tower juts 146 feet above the junction of the north and west wings.

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measures. Each one includes a pause or a “rest” (as in a musical bar) every 18 feet. This technique permits the viewer to “read” either the figures or the spaces between.

29 CROUCHING BATHER 1983 31 UNTITLED 4 1999 (probably recast from a 1910 original) MARK LERE (1950–) ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861–1929) SCULPTURE SCULPTURE 30 FIRST AMENDMENT Lawn South of Watt Hall Gift of the LA Arena Company in 27 HERCULES 1909 Harris Hall Sculpture Park (BLACKLIST PROJECT) Gift of the Class of 1959 memory of John Lilly ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861–1929) 1999 SCULPTURE Placed in the Harris Hall fountain, JENNY HOLZER (1950–) Each of these four sculptures appeals Courtyard of the Fisher Museum of Art Crouching Bather is the work of INSTALLATION to a different sense: sight, sound, Gift of George Cantor French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, Harris Hall Sculpture Park touch and smell. Those who sat on “Contain, maintain and master who worked as an assistant to Commissioned by the USC First the bench were surprised by its Amendment /Blacklist Project are the rules of construction,” Auguste Rodin and influenced the sound element—sound effects such sculptor Antoine Bourdelle told his art of sculpture considerably, not When a USC cinema student learned as thunder and human conversation— students. Another of Bourdelle’s only through his own work but also that Hollywood filmmakers were which has since been removed. representations of Hercules the as a teacher. Many of his students— blacklisted in the 1940s and 1950s Originally commissioned for the Archer, from the same year, is in the Giacometti among them—went on to for “subversive activities,” he was STAPLES Center in Downtown Los Musée d’Orsay in Paris. become prominent sculptors in their shocked. To promote awareness of Angeles, these pieces were relocated own right. this repressive time in U.S. history, to USC in 2007 with funding 28 EXTERIOR FRESCO 1940 faculty and others formed the First provided by AEG. BARSE MILLER (1904–1973) Amendment /Blacklist Project and FRESCO commissioned acclaimed conceptual 32 NUEVO KIORA 1987 South entrance to Harris Hall artist Jenny Holzer to create a work WOODS DAVY (1949–) These figures carry the symbolic about the McCarthy era for the SCULPTURE history of human civilization across campus’s permanent collection. Ten Lawn South of Watt Hall the east and west walls, to the climax benches represent the blacklisted Based in Venice, California, artist of industry and science depicted over “Hollywood Ten”; four stone paths are Woods Davy combines natural the front doorway. Often referred to engraved with quotations reflecting and human-made forms to explore as “painted music,” the fresco has the intensity of the period from the interplay between nature and been divided into equal rhythmic multiple perspectives. technology. With stones precariously

16 HARRIS HALL AND HARRIS HALL SCULPTURE PARK | WATT HALL AND SURROUNDING AREA ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 17 based artist John Frame has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. This sculpture was given to USC in memory of philanthropist George Boone, a life trustee and former president of the USC Alumni Association.

35 ON SATURDAYS 2011 murals evocatively represent the union ROBBERT FLICK (1939–) of Erna and Andrew Viterbi (whose INSTALLATION families fled Italy and Sarajevo in balanced on, or cantilevered off, Expo Park/USC Metro Station advance of World War II), Viterbi’s steel beams, Nuevo Kiora has been On several Saturdays, Los Angeles- fascination with the spacelessness described as having a “Western based artist and USC photography of wireless communications, and the Zen” quality. professor Robbert Flick photographed vast number of people Viterbi has major streets surrounding the Expo influenced and connected. 33 UNTITLED 2010 Park /USC Metro Station to create JOHN FRAME (1950–) 34 FIGURES 2006 an installation that documents the SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING PLAZA SCULPTURE ROBERT GRAHAM (1938–2008) rapidly changing neighborhood in a Lawn South of Watt Hall WINDOW MURALS particular moment in time. The station Gift of Mary Lou Boone Watt Hall, 3rd Floor is scheduled to open fall 2011. The sculpture, photography and Commissioned by Dean Robert Timme and the USC School of Architecture animation of Southern California- VITERBI MUSEUM Throughout his career, Los Angeles- based artist Robert Graham 36 VITERBI MUSEUM explored the female figure in CEILING MURALS 2005 drawings, photographs, videos and SANDRO CHIA (1946–) especially sculpture. The many poses MURAL rendered here capture the female Viterbi Museum, Commissioned by the form in movement. USC Viterbi School of Engineering Italian artist Sandro Chia created three impressionist ceiling murals 37 FOUNTAIN BY PASCAL to honor communications pioneer 1982 Andrew J. Viterbi, who earned PASCAL one of the first USC doctorates in FOUNTAIN electrical engineering (1962) and School of Engineering Plaza went on to profoundly influence the Installed in 1982 and dedicated University and the world. Chia’s in 1984, this fountain was

18 WATT HALL AND SURROUNDING AREA | VITERBI MUSEUM | SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING PLAZA ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 19 ANNA BING ARNOLD PLAZA commissioned as part of a campus of Cinematic Arts), who learned to AND SCULPTURE GARDEN beautification initiative led by fence for his role in The Mask of USC Trustee Paul Trousdale, in Zorro (1920). He shared a fencing preparation for the 1984 Los Angeles trainer with USC President Rufus Olympic Games. B. von KleinSmid from 1921 to 1947, with whom he collaborated CINEMATIC ARTS COMPLEX to introduce film courses into the University’s curriculum. 38 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS 2009 39 EADWEARD J. JAY HALL CARPENTER (1959 –) MUYBRIDGE 2010 SCULPTURE LAWRENCE NOBLE (1948–) Academy of Motion Picture Arts SCULPTURE and Sciences Courtyard, School of School of Cinematic Arts 42 BUST OF GREGOR Cinematic Arts Gift of the Lucas Foundation PIATIGORSKY 1978 Gift of the Lucas Foundation Eadweard J. Muybridge (1830– 40 EVELIA DE PIE 1978 ANTHONY AMATO Douglas Fairbanks, shown in a 1904) is considered the father of FRANCISCO ZÚÑIGA (1912–1998) SCULPTURE fencing pose, was the first president cinema for his pioneering work in SCULPTURE Anna Bing Arnold Plaza and of the Academy of Motion Picture capturing motion in photography. He Anna Bing Arnold Plaza and Sculpture Sculpture Garden Arts and Sciences and a founding experimented with the use of multiple Garden One of the greatest cellists of the Gift of Harry and Dorothy Meisel faculty member of the USC School cameras, and in 1879 created the 20th century, Gregor Piatigorsky of Cinema-Television (now the School zoopraxiscope, arguably the first Evelia de Pie (Evelia Standing) is (1903–1976) played for the Bolshoi movie projector. an evocative work by renowned Theatre as a teenager, defected from 20th-century Latin American political Russia to study music in Berlin and artist Francisco Zúñiga. Zúñiga Leipzig as a young man and enjoyed created several Evelias, representing a long career performing with the stoic, indigenous-looking female renowned European and American figure in various positions. orchestras before spending his final years teaching at USC. 41 VISTA FOR A RARE SPIRIT 1974 MIKI BENOFF SCULPTURE Anna Bing Arnold Plaza and Sculpture Garden Southern California-based sculptor Miki Benoff is known for her abstract, semi-organic, semi-industrial forms.

20 CINEMATIC ARTS COMPLEX | ANNA BING ARNOLD PLAZA AND SCULPTURE GARDEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 21 structure. Killingsworth, Brady MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES and Associates were among the influential group of architects 46 USC FISHER HOURS: practicing in the California Modernist MUSEUM OF ART september–may style during the 1960s. Established in 1939 by Elizabeth Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Holmes Fisher, the Fisher Museum TAPER HALL was the first in Los Angeles devoted june–august exclusively to the collection and Hours vary 45 TROJAN COLUMN exhibition of fine art. It is accredited CONTACT: 43 HEPHAESTUS 1977 c. 30 BCE to 400 CE by the American Association of (213) 740-2787 DIMITRI HADZI (1921–2006) UNKNOWN, Roman Museums and is the official museum roski.usc.edu SCULPTURE ARCHITECTURE of USC. The collection contains Anna Bing Arnold Plaza and Taper Hall some 1,800 objects and spans 48 HELEN LINDHURST Sculpture Garden Gift of the Acacia Fraternity on five centuries, from 16th-century ARCHITECTURE behalf of the Republic of Turkey Hephaestus, God of Fire and European paintings to the works of GALLERY patron of craftsmen and sculptors, Though a plaque indicates that new and emerging artists. This sky-lit, glass-enclosed gallery is rendered here by Dimitri Hadzi. this granite column came from a LOCATION: hosts architectural exhibitions and Hadzi himself was a master temple in the ancient city of Troy, the 823 Exposition Boulevard student reviews throughout the year. craftsman, famous for sculptures column in fact dates to the time of Los Angeles, CA 90089 LOCATION: both mythic and modern. the Roman Empire—centuries after HOURS: Watt Hall the legendary city was destroyed. Tuesday–Friday, Noon–5 p.m. Second Floor 44 UNIVERSITY RELIGIOUS The column was probably quarried Saturday, Noon–4 p.m. (except home HOURS: CENTER 1966 somewhere near Troy, however. football game days) september–may KILLINGSWORTH, BRADY AND Credit is due to USC professor of CONTACT: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, Noon–5 p.m. ASSOCIATES classical art and architecture John (213) 740-4561 ARCHITECTURE Pollini for dispelling an accidental fisher.usc.edu june–august Between W. 34th Street and legend with actual research. Hours vary Jefferson Boulevard 47 HELEN LINDHURST CONTACT: This building combines the tenets FINE ARTS GALLERY (213) 740-2723 of the International architectural This 1,500-square-foot gallery arch.usc.edu style with a simple post-and-beam features solo and group exhibitions by undergraduate students, as well 49 VITERBI MUSEUM as occasional special programming This hidden gem at the USC such as faculty exhibitions, video Andrew and Erna Viterbi School screenings and events. of Engineering was designed by A.C. Martin Partners, Inc. It LOCATION: Watt Hall features three rooms of artifacts, Ground Floor photographs, papers, mementos

22 ANNA BING ARNOLD PLAZA AND SCULPTURE GARDEN | TAPER HALL ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 23 and a video presentation of Andrew Golden Globes, platinum and PUBLIC ART AND Viterbi’s illustrious career. gold records and countless other CAMPUS DESIGN COMMITTEE LOCATION: awards presented to the singer in Ronald Tutor Hall recognition of his artistic, patriotic CHAIR SPECIAL THANKS Second Floor and humanitarian achievements. Rochelle Steiner, Dean, Roski School of Holly Bridges, Executive Director, Multimedia HOURS: LOCATION: Fine Arts Production and Visual Communications, Friday, 10:30 a.m.–Noon and Norris Cinema Theatre Main Entrance University Communications by appointment Patrice DiRocco, Assistant to the Senior Vice For hours and further information, visit: MEMBERS President, University Relations CONTACT: cinema.usc.edu/facilities/sinatrahall.cfm. Patrick Bailey, Senior Associate Dean, Office of Martha Harris, Senior Vice President, University Antoine Rose at [email protected] or Student Affairs (213) 740-4175 to arrange a tour. Relations Ken Cazan, Associate Professor of Opera, 52 SUPERHIGHWAY Dennis Martinez, Operations Manager, viterbi.usc.edu/about/viterbimuseum Thornton School of Music THE ROSKI SCHOOL OF Multimedia Production and Visual Robbert Flick, Professor, Roski School of Communications, University Communications FINE ARTS VIDEO SPACE AT Fine Arts 50 HUGH M. HEFNER HALL UNIVERSITY GATEWAY Annette Moore, Director, Special Projects, David Haugland, Associate Vice Provost for University Communications In 2007, Hugh Hefner made a major Launching fall 2011, Superhighway Faculty Affairs, Office of the Provost Kathryn Sample, First Lady Emeritus donation to the USC School of is the USC Roski School of Fine Arts’ Selma Holo, Director, Fisher Museum of Art Cinematic Arts to fund the central newest exhibition space. Located Margaret Lazzari, Professor, Chair, exhibition space of the new Cinema Undergraduate Studio, Roski School of in the recently completed University PRODUCTION STAFF Complex. The space features rotating Gateway apartment building, and Fine Arts Jessica Hoffman, Writer installations and events that draw featuring a 25-screen high-definition Marty Levine, Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs, Office of the Provost Isaac Mason, Editor from over 5,000 major pieces in the video wall, Superhighway presents to Amy Murphy, Vice Dean, Associate Professor, Debra Ott, Editor/Project Coordinator school’s extensive collection the public video artwork by students School of Architecture of film, television and interactive in the Roski School of Fine Arts. Phil Channing, Dennis Martinez, media assets. Christine Panushka, Professor, School of Dietmar Quistorf, Ruth Wallach, The space’s name refers to Korean- Cinematic Arts Photographers LOCATION: born artist Nam June Paik, who Larry Pryor, Associate Professor, Annenberg Cinematic Arts Complex pioneered the use of video in art in School for Communication & Journalism George Lucas Building the 1960s and coined the phrase Pamela Schaff, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Keck School of Medicine For hours and further information, visit: “electronic superhighway.” Consuelo Siguenza-Ortiz, Lecturer, Spanish and cinema.usc.edu. LOCATION: Portuguese, USC Dornsife College of Letters 3335 S. Figueroa Street Arts and Sciences 51 FRANK SINATRA HALL HOURS: Jonathan Soffa, Executive Director, Planning, Dedicated in 2002, Frank Sinatra Monday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Design & Construction Management, Hall houses a remarkable exhibit CONTACT: Capital Construction commemorating Sinatra’s life and (213) 740-2787 Ruth Wallach, Head, Architecture and Fine Arts Library, USC Libraries contributions to American popular roski.usc.edu culture. On public display are his extensive memorabilia, including his many Emmys, GRAMMYs, Oscars,

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