Media Category: Dorr-Bothwell

Departure from Tubac, Second De Anza Expedition, 1775 (detail). Photo: CG Blick.

Departure from Tubac, Second De Anza Expedition, 1775 (detail). Photo: CG Blick.

Departure from Tubac, Second De Anza Expedition, 1775 (detail). Credit: Design Dorr Bothwell. Photo: CG Blick.

The De Anza Monument’s cast cement bas-relief wall, Departure from Tubac, Second De Anza Expedition, 1775, depicts Don Juan Bautista De Anza passing through Arba (Riverside today). Design by Dorr Bothwell. Photo: Bob Blick.

The De Anza Monument plaque.

The Newman Park De Anza Monument, Photo: Bob Blick.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) just before his April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat, his weekly radio talk with the American people. The President is preparing to announce that he has just signed the bills creating Social Security and the WPA, the most important of his administration’s New Deal programs to pull the United States out of the Great Depression. Photo from the Harris & Ewing collection at the Library of Congress.

Youth and Democracy (detail 02), a mural by Dorr Bothwell (1938). The mural was a WPA Federal Art Project, at Hollenbeck Middle School, Los Angeles. Casein paint (dimensions: about 2′ x 200′). Photo: Melissa Lamont, San Diego State University.

Youth and Democracy (detail 01), a mural by Dorr Bothwell (1938). The mural, painted as a frieze in the auditorium foyer, was a WPA Federal Art Project at Hollenbeck Middle School, Los Angeles. Casein paint (dimensions: about 2′ x 200′). Photo: Melissa Lamont, San Diego State University.