Description
Los Angeles Architectural Photograph | Signed Limited Edition Print
A Robert Landau photograph of Muse of Music, Dance, Drama, the 1940 granite figure carved by George Stanley at the Highland Avenue entrance to the Hollywood Bowl. One of three monumental Art Deco sculptures Stanley produced for the Bowl under federal commission.
Artist: Robert Landau
Title: Muse of Music, Dance, Drama
Edition: Signed and numbered in the margin, archival pigment prints on 100% cotton watercolor paper, limited edition:
- 16X20, edition of 25
- 24X30, edition of 5
Curator's Note Landau shoots from below and slightly to the side, with the figure carved hard against an unbroken cobalt sky. The seated muse — eyes closed, hands clasped beneath her chin — sits atop a partial dome that anchors the lower edge of the frame without competing for attention. What the angle does is two things at once: it isolates the carving from its amphitheater context, and it lets late-day sun rake across the parallel grooves of the stylized hair and drapery. The granite reads as alternating bands of bright gray and deep shadow. No foreground, no horizon, no architecture beyond the dome. Just the figure, the geometry, the sky.
Collection: Art Deco | Los Angeles
Learn More About Robert Landau Photography
Additional Details
- SKU:
- RLP26101
