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Coit Tower mural replicas, Courtroom of Hon. Judge Charles Breyer, 450 Golden Gate 17th Floor, San Francisco

Coit Tower mural replicas, Courtroom of Hon. Judge Charles Breyer, 450 Golden Gate 17th Floor, San Francisco

 

Left mural: "Library" by Bernard Zakheim 1933

Right Mural: "Banking and the Law" by George Harris, 1933

 

Photographed at Coit Tower with Pentax 645Z, natural light

Each file is a composite of (6) stitched captures with net total file size 22,000 x 13,000 pixels. 16-bit TIF

 

Digital prints on Bamboo fine art paper by Hahnemuehle

Printed on Z3200PS

98 x 46" OD

 

Framing: Picture Woods 841 WCE engineered walnut

Kooltak Competition plate, aluminum

 

Hahnemuehle protective spray on surface, (no glazing)

Quarter-sawn poplar sub framing, zero clearance install

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Lighting: ETC Source Forward Gallery Light Engine, with 50 degree focusing lens tube.

 

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This law library has some interesting book titles when one looks closely. There are the usual Civil, Penal and Moral Codes, but also the Law of Fresco Painting, Counterfeiting, and Laws on Seduction. A fun one is Martial Law by Brady, he was the VFW caretaker who watched over the project and lived in the Tower’s apartment. The man on the left with the pipe is thought to be, patron of the arts, William Gerstle.

 

“Joining the artist in the library are family and friends. The artist is reading a Hebrew book. Fellow artist John Langley Howard reaches for a Marx book, Ralph Stackpole learns about the destruction of the Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center in New York, and Beniamino Bufano reads about his proposed St. Francis statue.”

 

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