Art studio Sergey Konstantinov.
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Art Conservation & Restoration Sergey Konstantinov.
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Mural Conservation San Francisco. Art studio Sergey Konstantinov.

Mural Conservation San Francisco.










A Mathews mural is in limbo

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The center panel includes Apollo and the muses, plus Hygeia, goddess of health.



ARTHUR MATHEWS CREATED his three-panel mural Health and the Arts in 1912 for what is now the Health Sciences Library in San Francisco. It has hung there for more than a century. Now the library has gone digital, disposed of its books and put its classical home in Pacific Heights on the market, leaving the fate of the mural uncertain.
The mural was commissioned for the reading room of the library’s classical home, designed by architect Albert Pissis. Mathews at the time was perhaps California’s most important artist, and one who exerted considerable influence over the education of a generation of early California artists and the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Other murals by Mathews include a series of 12 panels tracing the history of California in the rotunda of the State Capitol in Sacramento.
A spokesman for the library said “it is too early to tell” about the fate of the mural and that it “depends on a buyer’s intended use for the building.” The Beaux Arts building is being marketed as a “one-of-a-kind development opportunity.”
“Although the murals could be removed, it would be a costly conservation process that would make them even more difficult to sell,” said Harvey Jones, the longtime curator who built the Oakland Museum’s expansive collection of work by Arthur Mathews and his wife, the equally talented artist Lucia Mathews. “It seems unlikely that a new owner will be able to utilize the murals in a new configuration of the spaces. Their artistic appeal is dubious to contemporary business sensibilities.”
Jones, author of The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews, added: “I wish there were some reasonable possibilities for optimism here.”

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Art Conservation & Restoration Sergey Konstantinov
Art studio Sergey Konstantinov
www.mindspring.com/~fineart3
http://artstudiosergeykonstantinov.blogspot.com/
http://artrestorationsanfrancisco.blogspot.com/
http://paintingconservationrestoration.blogspot.com/
http://sergeykonstantinovsf.blogspot.com/
fineart3@mindspring.com
skype-sergey.konstantinov2
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