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In 1981, Restoration Associates pledged to restore the mural as part of a thirty-year lease on the property. [20] The mural room is now the San Francisco Visitor's Center. [21] The Beach Chalet murals appear in the Michael Apted film, Class Action (1991). [22] Details of Lucien Labaudt's San Francisco Life mural at Beach Chalet
San Francisco Tempera on gesso 1979 San Gabriel: San Gabriel County: Ray Strong: 1938 Los Angeles oil on canvas Located in the office of the postmaster San Mateo: Life in Early California: Tom Laman: 1935 210 S. Ellsworth Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401 San Mateo egg tempera on plasterboard. Set of 3 murals. 1988 San Pedro - United States Post Office ...
Life of Washington is a mural cycle in San Francisco's George Washington High School painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936. [1] It depicts George Washington at various real and imagined points in his life. Composed of 13 panels and spanning 1600 square feet, the work was the largest mural by a single artist that the WPA funded.
Refregier on scaffold at work on mural at WPA Building of the 1939 N.Y. World's Fair. Photographed for the Works Progress Administration. Photographed for the Works Progress Administration. Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 – October 10, 1979) was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions ...
The District's San Francisco Maritime Museum building was built as a bathhouse in 1936 by the WPA; in streamline moderne style, its interior is decorated with fantastic, colorful murals. The Steamship Room illustrates the evolution of maritime technology from wind to steam, and there are displays of lithographic stones, scrimshaw, and whaling ...
Resources of the Soil, study for a 1938 WPA mural by Ben Cunningham at the Ukiah, California, Post Office. Ben Frazier Cunningham (February 10, 1904 [1] –April 5, 1975 [2]) was an American artist and teacher. In his early career he was a painter of murals at sites including Coit Tower in San Francisco.
So great was its scope and cultural impact that the term "WPA" is often mistakenly used to describe all New Deal art, including the U.S. post office murals. [6]: 63–64 [7] "New Deal artwork" is a more accurate term to describe the works of art created under the federal art programs of that period. [8]
In 1941, Anton Refregier won the $26,000 commission for the series History of San Francisco, which are a set of 27 murals painted in the lobby of the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco, California. Refregier painted the mural with casein tempera on white gesso over plaster walls, in the social realism style. [4]