Artist:	Albert Stewart
Title:	The Law Givers
Date:	1960
District:	First Supervisorial District
Location:	Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Architect:	J.E. Stanton, William Stockwell, Paul R. Williams, Adrian Wilson Austin Field & Frey
Department:	Internal Services Department

The Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration is situated on the Civic Center Mall across from the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. The two buildings were executed within a few years of one another by mostly the same design team of architects. Gold-colored replicas of two of the Courthouse's bas-relief exterior figures, Mosaic Law and Declaration of Independence, are situated on the southern façade of the County Hall of Administration.

Information provided courtesy of Michael Several, Los Angeles, January 1998.
For further information, see www.publicartinla.com.

See Albert Stewart, Foundations of the Law
and Albert Stewart, Fort Moore Pioneer Monument

About the Artist: Albert Stewart (1900-1965) was born in London and emigrated to the U.S. as a child with his family. He studied at the Beaux Arts Institute and the Art Student's League in New York City, and served as an assistant to sculptors Frederick MacMonnies and Paul Manship before he began sculpting in the 1930s. Stewart taught sculpture at Scripps College in Claremont for 25 years. Notable works include figures on the Scottish Rites Temple on Wilshire Boulevard and on the exterior of the Life Science Building at UCLA.