dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler: Clifford Wight
titel: Surveyor. Hammer and sickle emblem. Steelworker. Comboy. Farmer
jahr: 1934
adresse: Coit Tower, Pioneer Park, 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd, San Francisco, CA, USA
+: Four fresco panels, 10 x 4 ft. each. Public Works of Art Project PWAP funded.
[...]However, it was the work of Clifford Wight, a former assistant to Diego Rivera, that received the greatest censure. Wight had pointed two tall figures — a surveyor and a steelworker — on either side of a large window. Although the controversial part of his fresco is gone today, Junius Cravens, a contemporary critic, described what used to be there. Commenting on Wight's symbolizing some of the social and political problems of the time, Cravens said: «Over the central window [Wight] stretched a bridge, at the center of which is a circle containing the Blue Eagle of the NRA. Over the right-hand window he stretched a segment of chain; in the circle in this case appears the legend, "In God We Trust" — symbolizing the American dollar, or I presume, Capitalism. Over the left-hand window he placed a section of woven cable and a circle framing a hammer, a sickle, and the legend "United Workers of the World" [sic; i.e., "Workers of the World, Unite"], in short, Communism.» (from: Zakheim Jewett 1983)
The emblems were removed before the tower was opened to the public.