Washington the Surveyor

[mpallamary]

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JULY 4, 2019 6:42 PM
San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people.

The “Life of Washington” was painted by Victor Arnautoff, one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco area during the Great Depression. The San Francisco Board of Education’s decision to paint over the 83-year-old mural is prompting some to worry that other artwork from the so-called New Deal era could face a similar fate because of changing sensitivities.

In addition to depicting Washington as a soldier, surveyor and statesman, the 13-panel, 1,600-square-foot mural at George Washington High School contains images of white pioneers standing over the body of a Native American and slaves working at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.


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[mpallamary]

And here we thought being associated with George Washington was a good thing.

Where does it end?

[marchenko]

I suggest that the School Board consider have students from Art Classes or some other volunteers paint the new mural, save about $500,000 that they can use on all the kids, like the kids that give it no mind and the kids that actually like the mural. Washington was not perfect, no one is, seems like a waste.

[Peter Ehlert]

it is not about $$$

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thought control

[Proud7191]

Revisionary History! To bad! Jp

[land butcher]

CA is a dictatorship and dictators notoriously destroy what they don't agree with.

"History is a vast early warning system" Norman Cousins