HERMAN SACHS:
THE SPIRIT OF TRANSPORTATION
Date
c. 1929
Location
Bullocks-Wilshire Department Store, rear motor entrance ceiling
3050 Wilshire Blvd. (near Westmoreland Ave.)
Media Notes
Fresco seco on plaster
Description
Celebrates forms of transportation popular in the 1920s (except the car). Mercury, the god of travel, is surrounded by a graf zeppelin, an oceanliner, a Maddux Airlines pullman airplane (which flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco), and a Santa Fe Super Chief locomotive. Done in an art deco style. Restored in 1973 by Anthony Heinsbergen.
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