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Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP listed D.C. Recorder of Deeds Crispus Attucks: Herschel Levit: 1943 D.C. Recorder of Deeds The Death of Colonel Shaw at Fort Wagner: Carlos Lopez: 1943 D.C. Recorder of Deeds The Battle of New Orleans: Ethel Magafan: 1943 D.C. Recorder of Deeds Matthew Henson Planting the American Flag at the North Pole ...
Portion of Coit Tower mural (San Francisco), by Lucian Labaudt, featuring Eleanor Roosevelt. Created in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. The Living New Deal is a California non-profit corporation based in the San Francisco Bay Area and affiliated with the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931) is one of four fresco murals in the San Francisco Bay Area painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. [2] Rivera's mural seems to be painted for and about a working class audience.
The mural captures much of San Francisco's ideals, with the different women painted on the building and the diversity it represents. [2] The mural was painted by a group of women, including a few former members of the all-female muralist group, the Mujeres Muralistas. The Mission District is home to many different alleys and walls of murals.
The mural paintings by Anton Refregier in the Rincon Annex of the San Francisco Post Office, San Francisco, California (M.A. thesis). Arizona State University. Gelber, Steven M. (1979). "Working to Prosperity: California's New Deal Murals". California History. 58 (2). California Historical Society: 98– 127. doi:10.2307/25157905. JSTOR 25157905.
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]
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The interior of the lobby (parallel to the Mission and Spear street facades) features the History of San Francisco mural series, comprising 27 tempera-on-gesso murals painted by the Russian immigrant artist Anton Refregier from 1941 to 1948 under the Section of Painting and Sculpture of the United States Department of the Treasury.