Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals

 Posted by on June 8, 2012
Jun 082012
 
Telegraph Hill
Coit Tower
WPA Murals
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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, notebook in hand.  Helen Clement Mills is one of the women working on an assembly line.
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Ralph Ward Stackpole (1885-1973) Stackpole grew up in Oregon.  He worked with scepter Arthur Putnam and painter Gottardo Piazzoni and the went to Paris to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts.  Some of Stackpoles work in San Francisco include a few bronze heads in City Hall, to large granite sculptures outside of the Stock Exchange, frescoes at George Washington High School and The Anne Bremer Library at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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  4 Responses to “Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals”

  1. gina says:
    June 8, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    This is beautiful! I think he is the same artist who created a wonderful art deco fountain in downtown Sacramento — it’s one of our little treasures.

  2. RedPat says:
    June 8, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    I love how they have included their friends! There is so much to see in all these murals.

  3. Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower | Art and Architecture - San Francisco says:
    August 1, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    […] to Napa Valley grapes. The “gentlemen farmers” are actually the artists friends.  Ralph Stackpole is in the checkered shirt and Albro’s husband, and fellow artist Parker Hall is by the tray […]

  4. Telegraph Hill – Coit Tower Murals | Art and Architecture - San Francisco says:
    August 1, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    […] many friends of Wight said was a self portrait) and the farmer, that looks an awful lot like artist Ralph Stackpole. […]

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