The artwork at George Washington High School depicts the life of the former president and shows slaves being sold at market and the body of a dead Native American surrounded by white settlers.
It shows slaves being sold at market and working in the fields of the president’s Mount Vernon home and the body of a dead Native American surrounded by white settlers. Activists have said the mural at George Washington High is offensive for its depiction of Native Americans and African Americans.one of the foremost muralists in the Bay Area during the Depression.
“We are dedicated to the proposition that the Arnautoff murals should be preserved as a magnificent work of public art for future generations and used, as the artist intended, as a way of teaching history,” association President John Rothmann said in a statement.
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