Remastered Art Striking Miners California Industrial Scenes Fresco by John Langley Howard 20240210
by John Langley Howard
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Remastered Art Striking Miners California Industrial Scenes Fresco by John Langley Howard 20240210
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John Langley Howard
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Painting - Remastered Art
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Remastered Art Striking Miners California Industrial Scenes Coit Tower Fresco by John Langley Howard 20240210
The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. Although its main focus has always been on workers and their rights, the UMW of today also advocates for better roads, schools, and universal health care. By 2014, coal mining had largely shifted to open pit mines in Wyoming, and there were only 60,000 active coal miners. The UMW was left with 35,000 members, of whom 20,000 were coal miners, chiefly in underground mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. However it was responsible for pensions and medical benefits for 40,000 retired miners, and for 50,000 spouses and dependents. The UMW was founded in Columbus, Ohio, on January 25, 1890, with the merger of two old labor groups, the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No. 135 and the National Progressive Miners Union. Adopting the model of the union was initially established as a three-pronged labor tool: to develop mine safety; to improve mine workers' independence from the mine owners and the company store; and to provide miners with collective bargaining power. -wikipedia
The Coit Tower murals were done under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project,the first of the New Deal federal employment programs for artists. Ralph Stackpole and Bernard Zakheim successfully sought the commission in 1933,and supervised the muralists,who were mainly faculty and students of the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA),including Maxine Albro,Victor Arnautoff,Ray Bertrand,Rinaldo Cuneo,Mallette Harold Dean,Clifford Wight,Edith Hamlin,George Harris,Otis Oldfield,Suzanne Scheuer,Hebe Daum,Jane Berlandina,Frederick E. Olmsted Jr. and Frede Vidar. -wikipedia
John Langley Howard was born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, on February 5, 1902, the son of architect John Galen Howard and Mary Robertson Bradbury. His siblings included Henry Temple Howard (1894-1967), Robert Boardman Howard (1896–1983), Charles Houghton Howard (1899–1978), and Jeanette Howard Wallace (1905–1998). The family moved to California in 1904. They settled in Berkeley, where John Galen Howard was hired to supervise the erection of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the University of California, Berkeley. He painted one of the Coit Tower murals, California Industrial Scenes. The mural was designed as a result of the atrocity of the Great Depression, and featured Karl Marx imagery which caused controversy when it was unveiled. -wikipedia
Remastered Artwork are professionally restored and enhanced to bring out the brilliance of the original art the way they were intended on the first day they were presented to the public. This type of artwork would look terrific on a large canvas, and a print on any other media would look just as stunning!
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February 10th, 2024
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