Journey through Books and Music

1946 Market Street
Castro/Mission
The Mural is on the side of 43 Buchannan

Titled Joyous Discoveries: A Journey Through Books and Music, this mural, by Keith Hollander won the Public Mural Award of 2001 for the Finest Mural in the SF Bay Area.

The mural is now being lost due to construction on this corner.

The books in the picture are: Chaim Potok, “The Chosen”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “100 Years of Solitude”, Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, “The Art Book”, Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”, J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”, and Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

This is what the mural looked like originally.

Keith Hollander was born and raised in New York and began creating artwork at a very young age. His unique, surrealist style of painting has been exhibited at galleries and exhibits throughout the San Francisco bay area since he made his home here thirteen years ago. Keith received his first formal art studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Keith has always been fascinated by people-their relationship to themselves and others- and by the physical human form as it relates to other physical objects. Through his nonlinear exploration and love of painting, Keith transports the observer into realms of imagination that one may not have considered before, encouraging the question, “What does he mean?” The juxtaposition of the conceptual portal against the air of surrealism creates a powerful fusing of possibility and probability. Keith considers his creativity to be a tool to educate, provoke, and stimulate the human spirit and the senses.

Major Funding: The Office of Mayor Willie Brown through the SF Neighborhood Beautification Office