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Conservation work was phased to include pre-construction activities prior to starting conservation repairs, which included installation of monitoring devices, review of protection methods for construction repairs to the building, high resolution photography of the murals, research to confirm the interior paint scheme, and completion of a conditions report. ARG/CS teamed with mural conservators and decorative painters lead by Anne Rosenthal, to create a team of architectural, objects, and paintings conservators. The Coit Tower painters were Maxine Albro, Victor Arnautoff, Jane Berlandina, Ray Bertrand, Ray Boynton, Ralph Chesse, Rinaldo Cuneo, Ben Cunningham, Mallette Dean, Parker Hall, Edith Hamlin, George Harris, William Hesthal, John Langley Howard, Lucien Labaudt, Gordon Langdon, Jose Moya Del Pino, Otis Oldfield, Frederick Olmsted Jr., Ralph Stackpole, Suzanne Scheuer, Edward Terada, Frede Vidar, Clifford Wight and Bernard Zakheim.ĪRG Conservation Services (ARG/CS) was retained by the San Francisco Arts Commission to conserve the interior decorative finishes and murals at Coit Tower in San Francisco. As a result of this project, artists Victor Arnautoff, Bernard Zakheim, and. They worked together on San Francisco's Coit Tower, the first major achievement of the initial PWAP art project in California. Three of the men who studied with Diego Rivera shared his politics as well as his style. Inbound to Fishermans WharfFrom Coit Tower via Telegraph Hill Blvd, left on Lombard, left on Stockton, left on Union, Loop at Montgomery, Union, right on Columbus, right on Powell, right on North Point to last stop at North Point & Stockton. Themes such as agriculture, industry, immigration, politics, capitalism, social class, and urbanism are depicted. Coit Tower Mural - City Life by Victor Arnautoff. The murals depict California during the Great Depression. In addition to the eighteen fresco murals, five oil painted canvas murals decorate the interior elevator lobby on the first floor and four fresco secco murals decorate the Berlandina room, located in the second floor enter to the roof. Twenty-seven murals were installed on the first and second floors. In 1934 a team of twenty-five muralists, four women and twenty one men, was selected to decorate the interior using true fresco technique. Walter Heil, director of the Legion of Honor, suggested the mural project to begin with, perceiving the. Shortly after the tower’s construction in 1933, the murals were added to decorate the interior as part of the Work Progress Administration. Coit Tower is the largest collection of Public Works Art Project art in the country. The Coit Tower murals are located in the iconic Coit Tower that sits atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.