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Albert Henry King
This art mural was completed in 1938 titled "Typical Activities of a Beach and Harbor City" This tile, measures 38′ by 22′ wide and it is made by ceramic tile. It was created with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. Which The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, they provided 10–30% of the costs. the WPA responsible for wages.
It was originally installed on the arched facade of the Municipal Auditorium. When the original structure was destroyed in 1979, the mural was saved by a community effort and installed at its current location on the south side of the City Place parking structure in 1982. The site was commemorated as Harvey Milk Promenade Park in 2013 and that is the current location.
Later he published a book in 1940 titled "Mosaics and Allied Techniques". King died in Los Angeles on Jan. 11. He was active in Los Angeles in Watercolor Society, the Young Painters of LA and Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles. His methods for his art is easel painting which is painting vertically, having support for the art. He works with creating Murals usually by fresco which is a technique used for freshly laid or we plaster,design, mixed media, mosaic and stained glass.
Arnold Henry King was an American Artist Born in Kent, England on April 10, 1900 This artist hold many titles as a potter, ceramist, painter and muralist. He emigrated to the United States at age ten, and lived in Los Angeles in 1910. He was enrolled at Lincoln High School in 1914, and at age fourteen he made his first pottery. He studied painting with Stanton MacDonald-Wright who was an American artist revolving color based art and worked as a ceramic muralist for the Federal Arts Division of the Works Progress Administration during the Depression of the 1930s.
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