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Bernard Zakheim original paintings and drawings.
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Bernard Zakheim original paintings and drawingsCreator/Contributor:
Zakheim, Bernard Baruch., creatorAbstract:
Original art works consisting of: 1: watercolor portrait of San Francisco County Sheriff Daniel C. Murphy -- 2: ink drawing
of Diego Rivera at work on a mural at San Francisco Art Institute, with other figures -- 3: oil painting of Diego Rivera,
Bernard Zakheim, Louis Schanker, and Frank Mechau with a mural in-progress -- 4: a sketch used as a study for Zakheim's Coit
Tower mural image of a public library scene which would depict many of the artist's friends and associates, including Beniamino
Bufano, Ralph Stackpole, Kenneth Rexroth and John Langley Howard (though these figures are not identifiable in the sketch)
-- 5: watercolor and charcoal portrait of linguist and writer Jaime de Angulo at Big Sur.
Date:
ca. 1930-1936 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
Mural painting and decoration -- Pictorial works
Artists -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Peinture et décoration murales -- 20e siècle -- Ouvrages illustrés
Artistes -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Ouvrages illustrés
Artists
Mural painting and decoration
California -- San Francisco
Rivera, Diego -- 1886-1957 -- Pictorial works
Angulo, Jaime de -- Pictorial works
Schanker, Louis -- 1903-1981 -- Pictorial works
Mechau, Frank -- 1904-1946 -- Pictorial works
Angulo, Jaime de
Mechau, Frank -- 1904-1946
Rivera, Diego -- 1886-1957
Schanker, Louis -- 1903-1981
Note:
4 pieces signed by the artist: Bernard Zakheim.
Title devised by cataloger.
Purchase; From Visual Transformation ; 2012.
Item list with more detailed item description available in library.
San Francisco Bay Area artist and muralist. His birth date is recorded variously as 4 April 1896 or 4 April 1898, in Poland.
At his time of death, in 1985, he was a resident of Sonoma County, California.
Preferred citation: Bernard Zakheim original paintings and drawings, BANC PIC 2012.113, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPictorial works.
Paintings.
Drawings.
Physical Description:
drawing
painting
2 folders (3 paintings and 1 drawing) and 1 painting : 99 x 82 cm or smaller.
Language:
English