dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler (in grau: assistent/in): Diego Rivera, Mona Hoffman, Arthur Niendorf, Emmy Lou Packard
titel: Pan American Unity: Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and South of this Continent: The creative genius of the south is born out of religious fervor and of the innate aptitude for the plastic arts. — Elements of past and present. — The plastification of creative power of northern mecanism by the union with plastic tradition of the south. — The tendencies of creative effort in the United States. The appearance of woman in the various domaines of this creative effort throughout its potentials and the power of the machine created by man. — Northern creative culture appears due to the necessity to build a civilized life on new and uninhabited ground
jahr: 1940
adresse: City College of San Francisco, Diego Rivera Theater, Ocean Avenue and Phelan, San Francisco CA, USA
+: Fresco on 10 movable panels. 22.5 x 6.74 m, executed during the 1939/40 Golden Gate International Exposition
The 1800 square foot 'Pan American Unity Mural' painted by famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1940 is a national treasure. It was commissioned by architect Timothy Pflueger to be created during the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. The Exposition was held to celebrate the openings of the Oakland Bay and Golden Gate bridges, which were finished in 1936 and 1937 respectively. Pflueger, who designed several of City College of San Francisco’s original buildings, wanted visitors to the Exposition to witness "art in action."
Rivera and his assistants began the mural in June when the Exposition opened, and finished it in December 1940, two months after the Exposition closed. More than 30,000 people came to see the finished mural before it was taken apart, crated, and temporarily stored on Treasure Island. Originally, the mural was to be installed in a new library Pflueger designed for City College of San Francisco, but those plans were halted due to the United States’ entry into World War II. The library was never built, and the mural was stored in a shed on the College campus for 20 years. It wasn’t until 1961, four years after Rivera’s death, that Milton Pflueger, Timothy’s brother, approached the San Francisco School Board and suggested the mural be displayed in the then-new performing arts theater at City College, that the mural finally found a home. The theater was renamed for Rivera in 1993.