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Bernard Zakheim

A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
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Saved from destruction, UCSF’s Zakheim murals are moved to storage

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 15, 2021November 21, 2021

A major work by the late San Francisco Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim, one that graced the walls of UCSF’s Toland Hall for 83 years, has been extracted in order to […]

A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inCulture

Court blocks removal of WPA-era murals at UCSF — for now

by J. Staff August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inCulture

S.F. firm wins bid to remove historic Zakheim murals at UCSF

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 22, 2020October 27, 2020
Large panel from Bernard Zakheim's "History of Medicine in California." (Photo/Courtesy UCSF Archives & Special Collections)
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Jewish muralist’s historic work faces demolition at UCSF

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 18, 2020August 12, 2020

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