Bernard Zakheim Murals at UCSF

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• History of Medicine in California - full length
• Bernard Zakheim painting UCSF Toland Hall mural
  Scope/Content: Artist Bernard Zakheim painting ten panel series, History of Medicine in California, mural in UC San Francisco's Toland Hall; the project was funded by the university and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project; verso: Fall 1937 Toland Hall UC Hospital; Zakheim with pipe, paintbrush and palette.
• Hooper Foundation section of UCSF Toland Hall mural
  Scope/Content: Detail of Hooper Foundation for Medical Research section of artist Bernard Zakheim's ten panel series, History of Medicine in California, mural in UC San Francisco's Toland Hall, created in the late 1930s; the project was funded by the university and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project.
• Page from Phyllis Wrightson's sketchbook
  Scope/Content: Notebook of Phyllis Wrightson -- Bernard Zakheim's assistant and later second-wife -- containing sketches and notes she made from historical sources as research and source materials for Zakheim's Toland Hall murals.
• UCSF_20200714_Murals_086-Pano
  Artist Bernard Zakheim’s mural titled, “The History of Medicine in California,” a ten-panel frescoe in Toland Hall, funded by the university and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, was painted over four years in the 1930s, and is now documented in 3D by CyArk, a non profit that archives and shares cultural sites before its relocation and the rennovation of the Parnassus Heights campus.
• Joseph Allen, Phyllis Wrightson, Bernard Zakheim, and F. Stanley Durie in front of UCSF Toland Hall mural
  Scope/Content: Left to right: Joseph Allen, State Director of WPA Federal Art Project; Phyllis Wrightson, artist assistant; artist Bernard Zakheim; F. Stanley Durie, Superintendent of UC Hospital; viewing Bernard Zakheim's ten panel series, History of Medicine in California, mural in UC San Francisco's Toland Hall; the project was funded by the university and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project.
• Toland Hall mural tour by Chauncey Leake
  Toland Hall Murals: an Oral History with Chauncey Leake. Dr. Leake discusses the frescoes painted by Bernard Zakheim in Toland Hall at the University of California, San Francisco. Helen Nahm, Dean Emeritus of the UCSF School of Nursing (1958-1969) also participated in this program.
• Toland Hall Murals: an Oral History
  Dr. Robert Schindler (Chair emeritus of the UCSF Department of Otolaryngology) presents a video tour of the murals painted by Bernard Zakheim in Toland Hall at the University of California, San Francisco.
• Bernard Zakheim and Nathan Zakheim
  Scope/Content: Artist Bernard Zakheim with his son Nathan Zakheim.
• F. Stanley Durie, William E. Carter, Phyllis Wrightson, Joseph Allen, and Bernard Zakheim viewing murals at UCSF Toland Hall
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  A “side scroll” or text portion of the Toland Hall mural, showing its original plaster squeezing through metal netting that the artist Bernard Zakheim painted on when it was wet — a fresco technique — is packed in archival material and surrounded by two-thousand pounds of steel, before it will be the first of the 10-mural plus 2 side scroll painting to be hoisted out of the roof of Toland Hall at the Parnassus Heights campus, coordinated by ARG Conservation Services.
• Bernard Zakheim and two men designing UCSF Toland Hall mural
  Scope/Content: Artist and painter Bernard Zakheim and two unidentified men designing ten panel series, History of Medicine in California, mural in UC San Francisco's Toland Hall; the project was funded by the university and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project.
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  Avidan Fernandez, field capture specialist at CyArk, captures high-resolution images utilizing both photogrammetry and LiDAR technology, and with this laser scanner, documents a 10-panel fresco by Bernard Zakheim titled, “The History of Medicine in California,” finished in 1938 and located in Toland Hall, a building set for demolition before the renovation of the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.
• At Work on Toland Hall Mural - Bernard Zakheim newspaper clipping
  Scope/Content: Artist Bernard Zakheim At Work on Toland Hall Mural newspaper clipping from SF News, March 13, 1937 page 13 Adams; the project was funded by the university and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project.