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Diego Rivera and assistant working on “Pan American Unity” mural, Treasure Island (1940) (image courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library) ...
“Pan American Unity,” a 30-ton, 74-foot-wide-by-22-foot mural by Diego Rivera, being installed at SFMOMA as the culmination of a four-year, multimillion-dollar undertaking involving engineers ...
SFMOMA on June 28 will host Diego Rivera's 10-panel mural, ... At 22 feet high by 74 feet wide, weighing more than 60,000 pounds and consisting of 10 fresco panels, ...
Mural historian Will Maynez talks with John Henry, Iris Sabre and her granddaughter Meadow Mihok about Diego Rivera’s “Pan American Unity” fresco on display at the Museum of Modern Art In ...
Plans are afoot to relocate Diego Rivera's mural Pan-American Unity from its current cramped quarters to a new building on the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) campus. We had a long visit ...
SFMOMA is suing CCSF for costs involved in relocating a famous, 30-ton Diego Rivera mural, which it began showing in 2021. ... fresco experts, conservators, art handlers” and more. ...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to initiate landmark designation for the 1931 Diego Rivera mural The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City ...
The mural, titled “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City,” was commissioned by SFAI’s then-president, and was completed by Rivera in May 1931. It has been in the institute ...
The mural graces the north wall of the Diego Rivera Gallery on SFAI’s campus at 800 Chestnut Street, where the artist painted it in 1931 with the help of assistants John Hastings and Clifford ...
The 149-year-old art school is still in dire financial straits, however. And, on Dec. 23, its dean of academic affairs wrote to staff and faculty that “all options to save SFAI” are on the table — and ...
Diego Rivera, “Making a Fresco” (1931) at SFAI’s Diego Rivera Gallery ... “The Diego Rivera mural is not a commodity,” reads the statement from SEIU Local 1021-affiliated adjuncts.