Jun 032012
Telegraph Hill
Coit Tower
WPA Murals
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The California Agriculture Industry by Gordon LangdonThe 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 holding a pitchfork
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Fellow artist Lucien Labaudt showering a cow
Gordon Langdon did not stay long on the Coit Tower project. His friends remembered him as a “handsome young man”. His other murals in San Francisco include Modern and Ancient Science over the main entrance to the library at George Washington High School and The Arts of Man in the Anne Bremer Memorial Library at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Great series of murals.
Darryl and Ruth 🙂
The artist cameos are a fun touch. The mural is a wonderful depiction of dairy farming.
I need to make a trip to SF. It does look beautiful.
This building must be bigger than I remember it, with all these great murals you’re showing us! 🙂
So colorful and looks 3D-ish.
Ohhhhh! The Wisconsin farm-girl in me is LOVING this mural. But don’t be calling those Cali cows “happy cows” ’cause WE’RE the dairy state all up in here in Wisconsin!
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By the way – – – I’d LOVE a jig saw puzzle of this painting. Just my style of art for jig saw puzzles!
(See how my puzzle brain works?)
I get a kick out of the fact that they include their peers in the works.
I’m amazed at all these murals in that tower!
I kept studying these murals, thinking they can’t be one dimensional. It looks like I could walk into those scenes.
I’m visiting from SIMC.
Have a great week.
I read recently that Coit Tower was having a big rehab! I’ve hiked up there a few times. It’s a great view.
Thanks for the reminder. Happy SIMC, jj
These are charming — I love the colors and style!
I love murals like these!
Murals are art for the people without museums…
The cameos are fun.