Legends of California

The Legends of California are a series of seven Limestone panels. They depict Donal Hord's vision of the founding of California.

Donal Hord (February 26, 1902 – June 29, 1966), an American sculptor, was born in Prentice, Wisconsin. One of the characteristics that makes Hord’s work unique was his choice of the materials from which he created them. Besides the standard bronze, limestone, granite, cast stone, terracotta and the marbles used by other artists, Hord’s works appeared in various tropical woods such as mahogany, eucalyptus, ebony, lignum vitae and rosewood, and in minerals such as obsidian, diorite, onyx and nephrite.

Beginning in the 1920s, Hord was a part of the Direct Carving school of sculpture, meaning that rather than carving from a previously produced model Hord allowed his work to be influenced by the grain of the material that he was carving.

Donal Hord website: https://sandiegohistory.org/collection/photographs/hordexhibit/