Charles B. Lawler Photographs
Maureen Carey
The University Library
Special Collections and Archives
University Library
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California, 95064
Email: specoll@library.ucsc.edu
URL: http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Charles B. Lawler Photographs
Collection number: MS 330
The University Library
Special Collections and Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
- Processed by:
- Maureen Carey
- Date Completed:
- July 2009
- Encoded by:
- Maureen Carey
© 2009 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
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
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
Charles B. Lawler photographs. MS 330. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Tim and Lynn Mason, 2006
Biography
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.
Indexing Terms
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
Collection Contents
box-folder 1:1-3
Series 1
Biographical
1929-1975
Physical Description: 3 folders
Scope and Content Summary
This series contians a small amount of biographical material consisting of an early photograph of Lawler in Paris, exhibition
lists, announcements and reviews.
box-folder 1:1
"Charles Lawler - The Bachelor, Paris 1929"
1929
Physical Description: 8x10 photo gelatin silver
box-folder 1:2
Exhibition Lists
1966-1975
box-folder 1:3
Show Announcement, reviews
ca. 1966-1975
box-folder 1:4-9, 2:1
Series 2
Photographs & Negatives,
1929-
Physical Description: 6 folders,
1 album
Scope and Content Summary
This series contains lists of the loose photographs and album pages.
box-folder 1:4
3x5 - 48 gelatin silver photos
ca. 1934-1977
Scope and Content Note
Forty eight photos of animals, figures, abstract forms
box-folder 1:5
3x5 - 7 color photos
ca. 1934-1977
box-folder 1:6
5x7 - 12 gelatin silver photos
ca. 1934-1977
box-folder 1:6
[Cockatoo]
Physical Description: Teak wood
22"h , Base 7 x 7 x 7
box-folder 1:6
[Pelican head]
Physical Description: Teak wood
19"h, Base 6 x 6 x 7
box-folder 1:6
[Plant forms] - 2 views
Physical Description: Teak wood
box-folder 1:6
[Torso]
Physical Description: Terra Cotta
38"h, Base 12 x 12
box-folder 1:6
Torso #04628a
Physical Description: White Italian marble
13"h, Black Belgian base 4.5 x 5 x 3.5
box-folder 1:6
[Torso] - side view
Physical Description: White marble
box-folder 1:6
[Reclining torso]
Physical Description:
White marble
34"h, Base 10" x 25"
box-folder 1:6
"Figure" - 2 views
Physical Description: Botticino marble (creamy beige)
34"h, Base 10" x 25"
box-folder 1:6
[Dolphins, bird] Los Angeles Museum, March 1941 exhibit entrance
1941
box-folder 1:6
California Palace of the Legion of Honor Exhibition
1966
Physical Description: Indiana Limestone
37.5 x 23.5 x 35.5; Base 7 x 7 x 7
box-folder 1:6
[Sculpture]
Physical Description: Stone, wood base
box-folder 1:7
5x7 - 7 color photos
ca. 1934-1977
box-folder 1:8
8x10 - 31 gelatin silver photographs
ca. 1934-1977
box-folder 1:8
[1-Untitled]
Physical Description:
Cast iron - Black lacquer finish
28"l x 18"h
box-folder 1:8
[2-Untitled] - 2 objects
Physical Description:
Cast aluminum - gray lacquer finish
22"l x 13"h
box-folder 1:8
[3-Untitled]
Physical Description:
Kasota stone, mottled buff
26"h x 16"w
Scope and Content Note
Ross Lawler
box-folder 1:8
[Stone fish]- 2 views
Physical Description:
Stone
box-folder 1:8
[Oval form - bird with head tucked under wing] - 4 views
Physical Description:
Pedrara Onyx
13"l
Scope and Content Note
James S. Gerstkey Collection
box-folder 1:8
[F](3 pieces mounted on Redwood base) - 3 views
Physical Description:
Oolitic Limestone, Base - redwood
Scope and Content Note
1966 California Palace of the Legion of Honor Exhibition
box-folder 1:8
[Q]
Physical Description:
Marble, Base - marble
Scope and Content Note
1966 California Palace of the Legion of Honor Exhibition
box-folder 1:8
[5-Untitled] "A" #13
Scope and Content Note
1966 California Palace of the Legion of Honor Exhibition
box-folder 1:8
[7-Untitled] "P" - 2 objects
box-folder 1:8
"Title 2. Figure"
Physical Description: White marble mottled with gray
36"l x 7"w x 5"h
Scope and Content Note
David & Patricia Stern
box-folder 1:8
[8-Untitled]
Physical Description: Black Nubian marble
12"h x 6.5"w
box-folder 1:8
[9-Untitled]
Physical Description: Caen Stone
28"h
box-folder 1:8
[10-Untitled]
Physical Description: Italian marble
18"l x 11.5"h
Scope and Content Note
Senta A. Raizen, 1962
box-folder 1:8
[11-Untitled]
Physical Description: Italian marble
33"l
box-folder 1:8
[12-Untitled]
Physical Description: Pink Georgia marble
22"h x 7.5"l
Scope and Content Note
Dr. La Motte, Pescadero
box-folder 1:9
Negatives - 13
ca.1939-1977
box-folder 1:9
[child, sculptures]
1959
Scope and Content Note
2 x 2" strip negatives
box-folder 1:9
#01699 "Torso" 1st prize
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04626 [Bird in Flight]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04627 [Reclining figure]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04628 [Reclining figure]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04628a [Reclining figure]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04629 [Dolphins]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04630 [Rooster]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04631 "Cocktoo"
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04632 "Plant Form"
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04633 "Plant Form"
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04633a [Pelican head]
ca. 1934-1941
box-folder 1:9
#04634 [Gallery view of Charles Lawler exhibit]
ca. 1941
box-folder 2:1
Photo Album
ca. 1929-1942
box-folder 2:1
Pg.1 "Paris 1931 - In the Studio of Charles Malfray" - 7 b/w photos
ca. 1931
box-folder 2:1
Pg.2 "San Francisco 1932" - 3 b/w photos
"Los Angeles 1931" - 1 photo missing
1931
box-folder 2:1
Pg.3 - "San Francisco 1932-1933" - 4 b/w photos - Male & female nudes
ca. 1932-1933
box-folder 2:1
Pg.4 - "San Francisco 1932-1933" - 4 b/w photos - female nudes
ca. 1932-1933
box-folder 2:1
Pg.5 - "San Francisco 1932-1933" - 3 b/w photos, male & female nudes - 1 photo missing
va. 1932-1933
box-folder 2:1
Pg.6 - 5 b/w photos - busts, sculptures
ca. 1929-1942
box-folder 2:1
Pg.7 - 6 b/w photos - bookends, birds
ca. 1929-1942
box-folder 2:1
Pg.8 - 5 b/w photos - birds, giraffes, elephants, cat
ca. 1929-1942
box-folder 2:1
Pg.9 - 5 b/w photos - wood bas-reliefs, birds
ca. 1929-1942
box-folder 2:1
Pg.10 - "Los Angeles 1934" - 8 b/w photos - tryptich, bird, nudes (stone & metal)
1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.11 - 6 b/w photos - stone bust, nude, torso, fish birds
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.12 - 5 b/w photos - torso, dolphins, bird (stone, metal)
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.13 - 6 b/w photos - fish, squirrels, dragonflies, dolphins, frogs, snails (stone)
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.14 - 4 b/w photos - squirrels, penguins, fish (stone, metal)
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.15 - 3 of 4 b/w photos - fish panel, roosters (wood)- 1 missing photo
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.16 - 4 of 6 b/w photos - cockatoo, plant, bird book ends
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.17 - 6 b/w photos - bird, plant forms, bas-reliefs, studio
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.18 - 2 b/w photos - reclining nude torso
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.19 - 4 b/w photos - elephant ash tray, rooster, sea horse, pedestal (stone)
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.20 - 6 b/w photos - 2 black nudes, dolphins, head
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.21 - 5 b/w photos - Nude, dragonfly, dolphins, cats
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.22 - 2 b/w photos - dolphins, entrance to LA Museum March 1941 exhibit with name, dolphins and bird
March 1941
box-folder 2:1
Pg.23 - 2 b/w photos - Los Angeles Museum
March 1941
box-folder 2:1
Pg.24 - 2 b/w photos, "Reclining Torso" front/back(Tennessee marble), Los Angeles Museum
March 1941
box-folder 2:1
Pg.25 - 2 b/w photos, 1 news clipping re: Los Angeles Museum exhibit
March 1941
box-folder 2:1
Pg.26 - 2 b/w photos - 2 female torsos
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.27 - 2 b/w photos - bird in flight, cockatoo
ca. 1929-1934
box-folder 2:1
Pg.28 - 3 b/w photos - 1 female nude torso, 1 living room wall carving, 1 living room coffee table
ca. 1929-1977
