But it also, in some ways, led him to and foreshadowed the ideas in his latest book, “The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco.” Shortly before Arnautoff ...

Jon Gollinger, founder of Protect Coit Tower, visited the murals this month from his home in Washington, D.C., and was alarmed by what he saw. “I was deeply disturbed and disappointed to see ...

Victor Arnautoff, a Russian-born muralist who worked with Diego Rivera in Mexico and supervised creation of the Coit Tower murals in San Francisco, was asked in 1934 to paint a mural for the city ...

The tower was completed in 1933, while artists painted the murals around its base (and repainted them due to some illustrations containing communist imagery) in 1934. The Coit Tower currently ...