- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Work Relief Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Artists:
- Bernard Zakheim, Koi Anderson, Phyllis Wrightson
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A ten panel fresco depicting the “History of Medicine in California” was completed by Bernard Zakheim in 1936 with FAP funds. The mural is located in Toland Hall.
Zakheim also painted another pair of murals in 1935 for Cole Hall: “Rational Medicine” and “Superstitious Medicine.” These frescoes of ground earth pigment on incised plaster were relocated to in 1967. The program behind these murals is unknown to the Living New Deal.
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Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site!["Superstitious Medicine"](https://livingnewdeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/1005-superstitiousmedicine.0_display.jpg ""Superstitious Medicine", Photo by: Barbara Bernstein - Click for full screen")
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