Monday, December 20, 2010

Monday mural: our artistic heritage

The 580 freeway underpass on Grand Avenue has a complicated mural dedicated to a history of Oakland artists.  It is too large to photograph in total.  Here I've featured the portion with Jack London over a night scene of Oakland.  Sorry, the mime is unknown to me.  The mural was done in 1984 by Galvez and Sklar with others.  It's situated kitty corner from the previously featured Grand Lake Theater.

8 comments:

  1. Very interesting painting. Would make a great record cover.

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  2. Love this as I love the author (no, not you! :-)but J. London!)

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  3. Très impressionnant.
    Bonne journée.

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  4. How cool is that..Jack London. My hero. Makes an exceptional mural. Merry Christmas to you by the way!

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  5. Just a little scary - a literary giant looking over his city. What if William S. Burroughs stood monster-sized over St. Louis?

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  6. Interesting comments today. I wonder why Ciel doesn't love you.

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  7. Nice mural. Jack London has written some really good books.

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  8. Another super mural! But I have to admit I did not know about the author/activist Jack London (until just now reading the Wiki).

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