Victor Arnautoff & Richmond Industrial City with Robert Cherny

Historian Robert Cherny speaks about the recently restored Richmond dIndustrial City mural by Arnautoff.
The talk will present the life and work of Victor Arnautoff, with special attention to the mural he created for the Richmond Post Office in 1941. I’ll present photos of his major public murals and a few of his other works, and I’ll discuss how the Richmond mural reflects and differs from some of the themes he developed in earlier works.
Richmond Library Arnautoff Mural – at Richmond Museum of History – 400 Nevin Ave., Richmond, CA 94801 510-235-7387
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Robert Cherny Lecture on Victor Arnautoff – Recorded at this event

San Francisco State University History Professor Emeritus Robert Cherny speaks about the life, loves, and art of Depression-era, leftwing painter and muralist Victor Arnautoff at the Richmond Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, California. His talk is based on his biography “Victor Arnautoff & the Politics of Art” from University of Illinois Press. One subject of his talk is a 1940 Arnautoff mural that was discovered in the basement of a local post office. The event was sponsored by the Richmond Museum and San Francisco Labor Fest.