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The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo [5] ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Watts was born in Marylebone in central London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel (after whom he was named), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker. Delicate in health and with his mother dying while he was still young, he was home-schooled by his father in a conservative interpretation of Christianity as well as via the classics such as the Iliad.
Physical Energy was the culmination of Watts's ambition in the field of public sculpture, embodying the artist's belief that access to great art would bring immense benefits to the country at large, Watts conceived Physical Energy as an allegory of human vitality and humanity’s ceaseless struggle for betterment.
George Frederic Watts, c. 1879 George Frederic Watts was born in 1817, the son of a London musical instrument manufacturer. [2] His two brothers died in 1823, and his mother in 1826, giving Watts an obsession with death that lasted throughout his life. [2]
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), English Victorian painter and sculptor; George Washington Watts (1851–1921), American manufacturer, financier and philanthropist; George Watts (cricketer) (1867–1949), English cricketer; George Albert Watts (died 1957), mayor of St Pancras, London; George Edward Watts (1786–1860), Royal Navy officer
MAMA Gallery; Marciano Art Foundation; Martial Arts History Museum; Materials & Applications; The Merry Karnowsky Gallery; Millard Sheets Center for the Arts; Riko Mizuno; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Morán Morán; Museum of Jurassic Technology
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This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.