L.A. Painter: The City I Know/The City I See

L.A. Painter: The City I Know/The City I SeeL. A. PAINTER: THE CITY I KNOW. THE CITY I SEE showcases more than 100 remarkable paintings that evoke the Los Angeles that painter Karla Klarin knows best. Combined with thirteen thoughtful essays, Klarin addresses what it means to be an artist in the worlds most talked about modern metropolisa place that constantly reminds us that talent is power. For four decades, Klarins brush has expressed the city as a geometry of color and line, fine art that

Pages are accompanied by photos from the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection

which is to say it tells us about just about everything that food touches: economics

Kun tackles the timely and critically important topic of food justice

Marsak lures us into Bunker Hill Los Angeles and shares its lost world

oranges and jasmine flowers evokes the eternal summer of Los Angeles (and Southern California at large) in every cup

This catalog was published in conjunction with From Pop to the Pit: The LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the Los Angeles Music Scene 1978 - 1989

Your baby will be the star of story time with our exclusive Los Angeles Public Library printed design

and symbols that murmur insider's reference to West Coast Culture

Jazz Singsanong

and even some of the city's best-known landmarks—the Hollywood Walk of Fame

They were seeking images of the predominantly Black community of Watts in the 1960s

Once its storied collection was housed in a department store building