Murals and Street Art

Currently available through the public library system. Claudia Walde has spent two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries with a view to showing the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the graffiti and street art cultures.

Presents a collection of over two thousand full-color illustrations of street art by over one hundred fifty artists from around the world.

Currently available through the public library system. The San Francisco Bay Areas art community was thriving until the Great Depression strangled commerce in the 1930s. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal art programs brought relief to many talented but financially strapped artists. Their legacy, and that of the New Deal, adorns the walls and halls of many public spaces throughout the region. Murals cover the lobbies of the Coit Memorial Tower, the Beach Chalet, and the Aquatic Park Bathhouse (today's San Francisco Maritime Museum) and decorate many public schools and post offices. Today, almost all of this wonderful art can be viewed by the public, free of charge.

"This collection of unique works by 151 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city’s diverse artistic landscape."

"The first graffiti book to document the Chicano Street Culture. Gusmano Cesaretti’s historical black and white photographs in high contrast and beautiful composition highlighted in a larger format, cloth bound in its well deserved sewn spine documenting Graffiti in Northeast Los Angeles in the pioneering seventies."

Related Los Angeles Times article: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2021-10-01/street-writers-book-gusmano-cesaretti-essential-california