Tag: Murals
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * * * This pair of canvas’ are also in the elevator alcove. The depict the farmlands of the Santa Clara Valley and the hills of the East Bay. The artists was Rinaldo Cuneo. (1877-1939). Cuneo was a native San Franciscan from North Beach where he maintained a studio.…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * This is the second of the murals in the elevator alcove, It is titled San Francisco Bay, North and is by Jose Moya Del Pino (1869-1969). The two young men represent Moya del Pino himself watching as fellow artist Otis Oldfield sketches what he sees below him. If…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * In the alcove, where visitors wait for the elevator are four more murals. This one is titled San Francisco Bay. This is an oil on canvas, and was painted in the artists studio. The two little girls are the artists, Otis Oldfield’s, daughters, Rhoda and Jayne. as they…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals News Gathering by Suzanne Scheuer Scheuer worked with assistant Heve Daum on news gathering for her panel in Coit Tower. Suzanne Scheuer was born in San Jose, California on February 11, 1898. She moved to San Francisco in 1918. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts and…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals The Library by Bernard B. Zakheim The Coit Tower murals were painted during a particularly disruptive period in U.S. History. Depression related economic challenges led to much discussion about alternate forms of government. A four day general strike (Bloody Thursday) accompanied by widespread rioting in San Francisco triggered an…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * Stockbroker and Scientist by Mallete (Harold) Dean Their are six figures that stand alone in the Tower. (You can review the first four here). The stockbroker/banker is thought to be A.P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy that later became Bank of America. The Scientist is Nobel…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals The Meat Industry by Raymond Bertrand * Notice the clever use of the window Raymond Bertrand (1901-1986) was a native San Franciscan. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts where he later taught Lithography. Bertrand was primarily a landscape panter, a critic once commented that Bertrand used…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * ( * Industries of California by Ralph Stackpole This is a vast expression of the industries of California at the time. Stackpole painted several fellow artists in this mural as well. Tom Lehman, a local artist, pours chemicals into a container while William Hesthal bends over a table,…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals Department Store by Frede Vidar This mural depicts the interior of a typical 1930’s department store with soda fountain and wine shop. Some items of interest are the fact that the waitress wears a cap with a Star of Dave, (which is surprising as Frede Vidar frequently expressed pro-Nazi…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * Cowboy and Farmer by Clifford Wight These are four of six single standing figures in the collection. They represent the very essence of California. The Will Rogers Style cowboy (that many friends of Wight said was a self portrait) and the farmer, that looks an awful lot like…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * * * * City Life by Victor Arnautoff is one of the largest murals in Coit Tower. It is a wonderfully vibrant street scene taking artistic license with the various city landmarks and their geographic positions. * * * Some things of note, the fire engine is Number…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * * California Industrial Scenes by John Langley Howard This mural gives us several juxtaposed scenes indicative of any society, but especially poignant during such difficult times. There are the solemn workers of the May Day demonstration, a woman doing laundry on the rocks, and an elderly woman sawing…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * The California Agriculture Industry by Gordon Langdon The dairy business is represented in this mural as well as several of the artists friends. Gordon Langdon was assisted by Helen Clement Mills on this mural. Fellow artist Fred Olmsted and his assistant Tom Hayes Fellow artist John Langley Howard…
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Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower
Telegraph Hill Coit Tower WPA Murals * * * * This mural is titled California and is by Maxine Albro. A wonderful depiction of the bounty of the California agricultural industry from Mt. Shasta Almond Orchards to Napa Valley grapes. * * The “gentlemen farmers” are actually the artists friends. Ralph Stackpole is in the…
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The Tenderloin – We Rock Hardest
Polk and Eddy Civic Center/Tenderloin Englishman Ben Eine has many murals around San Francisco. Here is a video of the installation: The piece was done to launch his gallery exhibit at White Walls Gallery. They did a marvelous interview with him that you can read here.
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Chinatown Mural
Chinatown Grant and Sacramento This mural is by Twick of ICP Crew who had a mural in SOMA that has since been painted over and another one around a Banksy in Chinatown. According to his Facebook page: “Twick” is a SF Hip Hop urban legend with many ranks like a general. He is one of the most…
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The Haight in Murals
RAI Care Center Haight and Schrader * * * This mural in the Haight Asbury district was dedicated to the rich history of the Haight Ashbury. It focuses on the elements born from the Summer of Love, and the movement sparked in 1967 towards a more peaceful society. It is located on the corner of…
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The Tenderloin – Pieces of San Francisco
The Tenderloin 569 Ellis Street Pieces of San Francisco Mural Project – 2008 -Created by youth from Glide Memorial, Youth With a Mission, Golden Gate YMCA and Hamilton Family Center in collaboration with Amnesty International. This mural is in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, on the street side of the organization of “Youth with…
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Michael Kershnar Around Town
San Francisco Around Town * Market and 6th Street Hemlock Alley Caledonia Street, The Mission These are all by Mike Kershnar The Citrus Report did a great interview with Mike, a fun excerpt: The greatest way graffiti has changed my life is the ever-present knowledge that whatever the visual landscape is, it has the potential to…
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Dan Plasma in the Mission
Mission District 15th and Valencia This is the side wall of restaurant Pica Pica. Dan Plasma had originally painted a tiger mural on this wall, then over the course of a few days other aerosol muralists covered it over with their work. This made Mr. Plasma rather angry, so when he took the wall back…
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Polk Street History in Murals
Tenderloin 1221 Polk Street This series is by Dray. This set of murals is on the side of Lush Lounge at 1221 Polk Street in San Francisco. When I spoke to Dray about these murals he relayed an article in the San Francisco Examiner that discussed the controversy regarding a series of murals that was to be scheduled…
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Chor Boogie
Mid Market – San Francisco 2174 Market Street Mid market is a desolate stretch of abandoned store fronts and SRO’s. This long frontage of boarded up building has been covered by an artist known as Chor. This is not any random street painter, Chor has a worldwide body of work, including a commissioned piece for…
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Lower Haight
Lower Haight – San Francisco Oak and Scott Streets * This mural was painted by San and Escif. Escif is a 28 year old artist from Valencia Spain. San is 29 and from Madrid. Earlier this year they traveled up and down the coast of California creating street art. All of their inspiration culminated in…
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SOMA & The Haight – EL Mac
SOMA – San Francisco The Haight – San Francisco This is on the corner of Russ and Howard Streets, South of Market. Miles “Mac” McGregor. Goes by The Mac or El Mac. According to his own website El Mac was “born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating…
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The Tenderloin – Humming With Life
The Tenderloin – San Francisco Hyde and Golden Gate This is panel one of a new mural on the U.S. Postal Service office building at the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate. It was done by Johanna Poethig, whose work we saw in The Tenderloin National Forest and Tutubi Plaza. This mural is titled humming with life. If…
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Chinatown Murals
Chinatown – San Francisco Stockton and Pacific This mural is also on the Ping Yuen Housing Project. This is the Stockton Street Side of the building. Painted by Darryl Mar in 1999. Mar is a graduate of UC Irvine. He went on to get a masters in Asian American Studies from UCLA. Mr. Mar was…
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SOMA – Meagan Spendlove
SOMA – San Francisco This mural is on the corner of 10th Street and Sheridan in the South of Market Area of San Francisco. The artist is Meagan Spendlove. Her website reads “Meagan Spendlove currently works in San Francisco, California as a professional designer, illustrator and project coordinator. Her latest endeavors include yet are not…
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Love in the Lower Haight – Silly Pink Bunnies
Silly Pink Bunnies and Love in the Lower Haight. In October of 2010 the long wall on the corner of Haight and Laguna that surrounds a series of buildings that once housed the UC extension campus became a mural collective. Called “Love in the Lower Haight,” the mural stretches 100 feet up Haight Street from Laguna…