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künstler (in grau: assistent/in): Diego Rivera, Mathew Barnes, Robert Boardman Howard

titel: Allegory (Riches) of California

jahr: 1930–1931

adresse: Pacific Stock Exchange / The City Club (Luncheon Club, 10th to 11th floor), 716 Montgomery St, San Francisco CA, USA

+: True fresco, 9 x 3,90 m (43.82 m2). Commissioned by Timothy Pflueger (1892—1946), the building's architect, by the arrangement of the sculptor Ralph Stackpole (1885—1973) who made the plastic decorations of the building. The painting shows the californian tennis star Helen Wills Moody (1905—1998) depicted as Allegory of California. Ralph Stackpole is portrayed holding the mockup plane in his hands and, tho his left, the muralist painter Victor Arnautoff.