Coit Tower Art #1
by Roxie Crouch
Title
Coit Tower Art #1
Artist
Roxie Crouch
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
In 1934, in the midst of the Depression, a group of San Francisco artists lobbied for a job: to paint murals on the walls of Coit Tower, the monument that had opened a year earlier atop Telegraph Hill. The iconic tower is now famous for those murals. Recently reverently restored, they flank the walls of the inner and outer circular lobby, the steep inner staircase and the second floor.
Thanks to the artists’ concerted efforts, the Public Works of Art Project—the precursor to the Works Progress Administration—hired 26 local muralists (with 19 artist-assistants), including four women (Suzanne Scheuer, Maxine Albro, Edith Hamlin and Jane Berlandina), to paint murals depicting contemporary San Francisco life.
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January 28th, 2019
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