Bernard Baruch Zakheim was a Warsaw-born San Francisco muralist, best known for his work on the Coit Tower murals.
Part of Zakheim's "Library" (1934). The man in green is reaching for a copy of Marx's Das Kapital, while the newspapers have headlines about contemporary art and labor issues.
"The Wedding Ceremony" (1933) at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Coit Tower is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 193
View from Washington Square Park in 2024
Coit Tower in 2008, looking WSW
Robert Boardman Howard's cast concrete relief of a phoenix is placed above the main entrance to the tower.
Detail from Ray Boynton's fresco Animal Force and Machine Force, crediting the Public Works of Art Project