Art and Architecture

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. HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE CORRESPONDS TO CENTRAL CAMPUS AREA ON THE MAP. CORRESPONDS TO SOUTH CAMPUS AREA ON THE MAP. CORRESPONDS TO WEST CAMPUS AREA ON THE MAP. CORRESPONDS TO NORTH CAMPUS AREA ON THE MAP. CORRESPONDS TO MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ON THE MAP. BUILDINGS ART AND ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS THE MAP APPEARS ON PAGES 12–13. 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. 4 DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT USC 5 ALUMNI PARK HANCOCK FOUNDATION BUILDING BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 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. CAMPUS CENTER AND HAHN PLAZA 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.

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