page_title: Bernard Zakheim
section_title: The History of Medicine in California
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard Zakheim / Works / Murals / The History of Medicine in California
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of artist and WPA muralist Barnard Zakheim
context_page_description: Bernard Baruch Zakheim was a Polish-born San Francisco muralist, best known for his work on the Coit Tower murals.
context_section_description: Over four years in the 1930s, Zakheim painted ten frescoes in Toland Hall Auditorium on the Parnassus campus of the University of California, San Francisco, titled "The History of Medicine in California". These received national attention, including a mention in Time magazine. Considered controversial, they were papered over in 1948, and later restored by Zakheim's son Nathan. One of the murals shows Black nurse Biddy Mason working with John Strother Griffin.
  
  UCSF plans to demolish the building; funding is to be sought for moving the murals. As an indication of its support for their preservation, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has begun the process of having them declared a city landmark.
caption: Barnard Zakheim (1975)
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