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Seymour Rosen
Watts Towers1962

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Black and white photograph of two tall, open-lattice metal spires rising into a hazy sky, with a weathered wooden fence and dry brush in the foreground

Seymour Rosen, Watts Towers, 1962, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Seymour Rosen, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Seymour Rosen
United States, Illinois, Chicago, active California, Los Angeles, 1935-2006
Title
Watts Towers
Date Made
1962
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 7 13/16 × 9 9/16 in. (19.8 × 24.29 cm) Primary support: 7 13/16 × 9 9/16 in. (19.8 × 24.29 cm) Secondary support: 11 × 14 1/16 in. (27.94 × 35.72 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Seymour Rosen
Accession Number
M.63.29
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.

  • Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1962.

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