​HOLLYWOOD ART CENTER ARCHIVE

The Hollywood Art Center School was founded in Hollywood, CA in 1912 by artists Henry and Mona Lue Lovins. Considered to be a pioneer of today's Southern California Art Schools, its area of study included Fine Arts, Commerical Art and Illustration, Interior Design, Fashion and Costume Design, Animation and Sculpture.

 

Students and faculty participated in such varied projects as the animation of Walt Disney's Fanstasia (1940), the Tommy Trojan Statue at USC (1930), and the famous memorial to Rudolph Valentino in De Longpre Park (1930). HACS curriculum focused on the creative and technical advancement of the artist, in a free-spirited, progressive pursuit of intensive study.

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For more history, please read the recently      published article on East of Borneo, called Henry Lovins and the Lost Hollywood    Art Center School.

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https://eastofborneo.org/articles/henry-lovins-and-the-lost-hollywood-art-center-school/