Artwork Detail
San Pedro Harbor
Artist: Leone, Barbara
Object Date: 1976
Medium: Ceramic
Department(s): Aging and Disabilities
Supervisorial District: 4
About the Artwork:
About the Artist:
A few years after the San Pedro Service Center was built in 1972, ceramicist Barbara Leone designed this mural for the Center’s lobby. The mural celebrates San Pedro’s active harbor life. It is composed of glazed and unglazed ceramic tiles and depicts the Vincent Thomas Bridge, as well as other San Pedro sites, such as a cargo ship, a tug boat and a fisherman. The mural was fabricated by Barbara Vantrease Beall Studio in Torrance, California.
Barbara Leone was born in Seattle, Washington in 1952. She received a degree in fine arts (with a focus on ceramics) from USC and soon afterward began designing tile works for homes and commercial properties. She has lived and worked in Southern California since the 1970s and runs her own studio, Chelsea-Arts. Her other public art projects include works for the Sheraton Molokai Hotel in Hawaii and Seacliff Village shopping center in Huntington Beach.