Rincon Annex Murals
A post office lobby went to Congress, over a red book, muscular Indians and a pair of mule ears.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
A committee of Congress spent a whole day in 1953 arguing over whether to destroy the paintings in a San Francisco post office. The painter had feared something like it. "Some night, perhaps," Anton Refregier wrote in 1948, "men will come with buckets of white paint." He had just finished twenty-seven panels on the history of the city, in the lobby of this building, under a federal contract.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Lobby of Rincon Center, 101 Spear Street, a private building with offices and shops. The lobby keeps set hours, and listings differ, so check before you go.
Sources
- Gray Brechin, Art on Trial (Living New Deal)
- Gary Kamiya, When a red-hunting Congress took on S.F. murals (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Living New Deal: Rincon Annex Murals
- Wikipedia: History of San Francisco (Refregier)
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