Upland Elementary School Exterior Murals - Upland CA Artist Paul Julian created a series of four large petrachrome murals on the exterior of Upland Elementary School's auditorium.
The murals were funded by the WPA's Federal Art Project and completed in 1942.
The set of four murals depicts scenes from Upland's history: native era, mission era, Anglo settlement and citrus era. The paintings are in a stylized social realism typical of the time, featuring muscular men at work in all four panels. It is notable that the Indigenous people are portrayed in the same muscular manner as Spaniards and Anglos – though the cooperative labor of padres and natives seems a...