One of the Los Angeles Public Library's largest pieces of outdoor art can only be appreciated in photos now, after becoming a victim of Southern California's weather. Bison Hunt, a 50-foot-by-26-foot fresco by painter/printmaker/lithographer/woodcutter Charles Kassler Jr., once graced a patio wall at Central Library. The fresco, commissioned by the Library Board of Commissioners and approved...
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Bison Hunt by Charles Kassler Jr. graced the Central Library Children’s Courtyard from 1934 until 1963 [n.d.]. Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
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