John Langley Howard
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John Langley "Lang" Howard was an American artist, known as a Social Realist muralist, printmaker and illustrator.
California Industrial Scenes mural detail at Coit Tower in San Francisco
Coit Tower
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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
John Langley Howard
…initially enrolled in California College of Arts and Crafts and later at Art Students League of New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller. He painted one of the Coit Tower murals, California Industrial Scenes. The mural was designed as a result of the atrocity of the Great Depression, and featured Karl Marx imagery which…
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