Long-lost New Deal-era fresco at SF Art Institute to be brought to light

The partly revealed work of “Marble Workers” (1935) by Frederick Olmsted Jr.
"When the New Deal muralists painted the interior of Coit Tower in the early 1930s, Frederick Olmsted Jr. was a student assistant who was given one tiny square above the front door for his own statement, an image of a fist in a piece titled 'Power,' to give rise to the proletariat. But Olmsted had much more to say and ended up saying it in a 10-by-9-foot fresco mural titled 'Marble Workers,' completed in 1935 at the San Francisco Art Institute. Possibly because it was just 'student art,' Olmsted’s depiction of tradesmen at work in a waterfront tile shop was whitewashed over and then painted over 10 more times. Now all of those layers are coming off by Q-tip and solvent, and by the end of October, “Marble Workers” will be revealed for the first time in 75 years. ..."
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1930s-Era Murals Found Under Painted Hallways at SF Art Institute (Video)
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A worker smokes a Chesterfield cigarette in the newly uncovered mural by Frederick Olmsted Jr. inside the San Francisco Arts Institute.