Nancy Jo Fostvedt Tice Bloom Collection of Family Photographs by Will Connell, 1933-1946

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Nancy Jo Fostvedt Tice Bloom Collection of Family Photographs by Will Connell, 1933-1946

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Opal Weimer Fostvedt Tice (ca. 1900-1978) was a member of the Los Angeles art community and often a model for photographers in the group. Will Connell (1898-1961) was a self taught photographer (1920s). He opened a studio in downtown Los Angeles, exhibited in Pictorialist exhibits, and was a member of the Camera Pictorialist. In 1931, he started a 30-year teaching career at Art Center College of Design. He also worked for movie studios and magazines, did commercial photography, and was one of the first photojournalists. The collection consists of photographs or portraits of Opal Weimer Fostvedt Tice and her family taken by Will Connell. Subjects include other Fostvedt Family members, Connell Family members, and various friends.

1 oversize box

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Fostvedt-Tice family

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Bloom, Nancy Jo Fostvedt Tice, 1933-

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Opal Weimer Fostvedt Tice was born in Portland, OR, ca. 1900; married Willaim C. Fostvedt (1926), divorced and married Fred A. Tice (1943); was a member of the Los Angeles art community and often a model for photographers in the group; died ca. 1978. William C. Fostvedt was born in Olso, Norway, 1902; migrated to US, 1907; was a banker; died in Los Angeles, 1964. Nancy Jo Fostvedt Tice Bloom, daughter of Opal and William, was born in Los Angeles, CA, 1933. ...

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

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Connell was born in 1898 in McPherson, KS; came with mother to California, and attended Los Angeles High School; left in the tenth grade to enlist in the army, but World War I had ended; became a pharmacist; in the 1920's taught himself photography, and opened a studio in downtown LA in 1925; became a member of the Camera Pictorialists along with Edward Weston, Louis Fleckenstein, and others; taught at Art Center College in Pasadena from 1931 until his death; work also included movie publicity s...