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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Jeff Maltby - Public Works Mural

Here is the final Maltby mural in the little retrospective we've been having. This one is on the side of a building in the City of Victoria's Public Works yard, only a stone's throw from the recycling mural viewed yesterday. It's another of Maltby's time travel murals with the older scene on our right and the modern view on the left. The title is "Public Works Through the Years". When I look at these paintings as a body of work, what comes to mind is Diego Rivera's many murals in Mexico City. Although Maltby's murals lack that revolutionary fervor, in their own quiet way they too tell some of the story of this place. Would that there were more of them.

3 comments:

The Furry Gnome said...

Remarkable series of murals!

William Kendall said...

I do like that sense of a passage of time we see here.

JoJo said...

He did a lot of work in Victoria! Great stuff. Thank you for featuring them!