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Title: Charles B. Lawler photographs
Dates: 1929/1977
Collection number: MS 330
Creator:
Lawler, Charles B.
Collection Size:
2 boxes
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection consists mostly of b/w and color snapshots of Lawler's sculptures.
Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Charles B. Lawler photographs. MS 330. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of Tim and Lynn Mason, 2006
Charles B. Lawler was born in Los Angeles, CA on April 22, 1902, to Oscar and Hilda B. Lawler. He graduated from UC Berkeley
(1924) and then spent six months at Harvard Law School. Abandoning a law career, he returned to his native city and got closer
to art via ceramics while employed at the Gladding-McBean tile plant. On a trip to Paris in 1928 he decided to become a sculptor.
About 1930 he returned to Paris to study under Charles Malfray. He then studied at the CSFA under Stackpole and in Los Angeles
with Archipenko. During WWII he made models for Hughes Aircraft and Lockheed. Lawler taught at Pomona College at Claremont
from 1949-1957. His last twenty years were spent in a 90-acre hilltop home in Pescadero, CA. He died there on September 12,
1977.
Working in clay, wood, and stone, Lawler's early works were representational but later evolved into abstractions.
Exhibitions: Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1938; Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles, 1939; Golden Gate International
Exhibition, San Francisco, 1939; Los Angeles County Fair, Los Angeles, CA, 1941; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
CA, 1940, 1941 (1st prize), 1947; Ebell CLub, Los Angeles, CA, 1942; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1949; San Gabriel Vallet
Artists, 1951; Chaffey AA, 1951; Padua Hills Art Festival, 1953; Scripts College, 1955; In: Ponoma College, Claremont, CA;
Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA; Chico State University, Chico, CA; Harvard School, Los Angeles, CA; University of California,
Berkeley.
From: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists mostly of b/w and color snapshots of Lawler's sculptures. Most of the b/w photographs, loose and
album, are from 1929 to the Los Angeles Museum Exhibition in March 1941. The color snapshots are mainly from the 1950's-1970's.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Lawler, Charles Brode--Archives
Sculpture--American
Sculptors--California--San Francisco