Kent Twitchell

After working during the early ’60s as an Air Force artist in London, Kent Twitchell moved to Los Angeles in 1966 and began doing what he referred to as “Street Art.” His ambitious series of murals, “Monuments to American Cultural Heroes,” started in 1971 with “Steve McQueen Monument” near downtown LA and “Strother Martin Monument” in Hollywood.

In 1973 Kent painted a five-story “Bride & Groom” followed by “Old Woman of the Hollywood Freeway.” He has painted over 100 portraits within some 30 exterior murals including the “Julius Erving Monument” in Philadelphia; monuments to visual artists Edward Ruscha, Jim Morphesis, Lita Albuquerque and Gary Lloyd; and the LA Chamber Orchestra on three nine-story walls overlooking the downtown freeway. Kent painted dual public monuments to Will Rogers in San Bernardino on the historic California Theater and is currently designing 3 murals for the restored Bob Hope Patriotic Hall in Downtown Los Angeles and planning monuments to artist Charles White on the south wall of the original Otis College Gallery on Wilshire Blvd and monuments to artists Ed Kienholz, Ed Moses, Robert Irwin, and the return of his landmark Ed Ruscha Monument, all in Los Angeles.