Myer Shaffer scrapbook
name: label: Creator
content: Shaffer, Myer, 1911-1983
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- California -- Los Angeles -- Themes, motives
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1997 by Linda Shaffer, Myer Shaffer's daughter, via Orville Clark, an art historian who studies WPA murals and artists.
creator: label: Creator
content: Shaffer, Myer, 1911-1983
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Los Angeles, Calif.; b. 1912; d. 1973 Shaffer worked with the federal art projects of the 1930s. The destruction of his mural at the Mount Sinai home created controversy in 1938, as did the addition of a clenched fist (communist salute) above his mural at the L.A. Sanitorium (now City of Hope) in Duarte. As a student at the Chouinard School of Art, Shaffer assisted David Alfaro Siqueiros with his mural American Tropical (1933). Shaffer was also an art critic for the Jewish Community Press, 1937-1938.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1930-1941]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shafmyer
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A scrapbook that contains miscellaneous newpaper/magazine articles, a portrait of the artist, exhibition notices, letters, and articles on art activity in Los Angeles written by Shaffer for the Jewish Community Press between 1937-1938. Other items include a program for the play "We are Children of the People" for which Shaffer painted the scenery and a family portrait.