Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182 pp., 1923
"456 Mesa . . . Residence of scuptor Merrell Gage and his wife, artist Marian Gage, who built their . . . residence in 1923 . . . .
"Gage won broad acclaim for his sculptures of Lincoln and appeared in a televised documentary, "The Face of Lincoln," which won an Academy Award for the best short subject of 1955. He created the sculptured fountain with the figure of an Indian on the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards in Beverly Hills. . . ."