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Ex-Prisoner's Epic Murals Recognized

By AAN Staff
july 28, 2003  11:40 am
Ex-Prisoner's Epic Murals Recognized
The epic murals on the cafeteria walls of California's San Quentin State Prison are surely one of America's best-kept art secrets. Twelve feet high and nearly 100 feet long, they chronicle California's history, from the coming of the railroads to the post-war industrial boom, and have drawn favorable comparisons to the WPA post-office murals of the 1930s. For nearly 50 years, the identity of the man who painted the murals has remained a mystery. But, as SF Weekly staff writer Ron Russell reports, the mystery has been solved -- and for the first time in history, a former San Quentin inmate is about to be honored with a "key to the prison."
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