A Los Angeles Treasure: Richard Wyatt Jr.

Lara Caresse Saikali
7 min readJun 20, 2020
City of Dreams/River of History Mural 1996, Oil on Honeycomb aluminum, via (Richard Wyatt Jr Studio )

So with what’s been going on around the world, I have decided to further my learning of Black History in the United States. Since I am getting my Masters degree in Art History I figured why not write about a Black artist that I haven’t learned about. I am choosing to write about a Black artists name Richard Wyatt Jr., who has constructed Public Art Murals in Los Angeles including a mural for Union Station in Downtown…

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