Post #566123 by Dustycajun on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 5:28 PM

As promised, I stopped at the Covorrubias Mural exhibit at San Jose City Hall on my way to San Francisco this weekend.

The new City Hall complex is very modern looking. Parking was easy in the City Hall garage.

The murals are hung in a narrow hall gallery that connects to the City Council chambers.

The entrance sign.

This is a description of the 6 murals, including the sizes, locations, and the missing Art Forms mural. Of all the ones to lose, it had to be the Art Forms Mural!

Some nice information and photos of Covorrubias.

The narrow gallery makes it tough to photograph the murals. The first mural you see is the large Economy of the Pacific mural.

I jumped in the photo to add scale.

A few close ups.

The second mural is the Native Dwellings of the Pacific.

This one has some great renderings of the building types in the pacific.

The third mural is the Peoples of the Pacific, another huge one.

There are smaller copies of the Flora and Fauna Mural and the Transportation Mural.

Me again for scale.

An amazing display, if you have not seen these you need to go.

If you go I would highly recommend having lunch at the Los Cubanos restaurant, a great Cuban place located on Santa Clara Avenue at Almaden (about 4 blocks away). Try the Chicken and Rice special, Cuban Sandwich, Chicken Soup and the house Mojito.

There was some more cool stuff from the 1939 Worlds Fair that I will post later.

DC