San Pedro Harbor

Artist: Leone, Barbara

Date: 1976

Medium: Ceramic

County Department: Aging and Disabilities

Artwork Site: San Pedro Service Center

Supervisorial District: 4

Current Status: On view

About the Artwork: 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.

About the Artist: 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.