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Coit Tower

tower, San Francisco, California, United States
Also known as: Coit Memorial Tower
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murals by various hands in Coit Memorial Tower at San Francisco; Grant Wood’s cooperative mural in Iowa State College (now Iowa State University) at Ames; Ben Shahn’s mural designs on the theme of Prohibition; and Paul Cadmus’s The Fleet’s In, which caused a scandal at the PWAP’s 1934 national exhibition


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murals by various hands in Coit Memorial Tower at San Francisco; Grant Wood’s cooperative mural in Iowa State College (now Iowa State University) at Ames; Ben Shahn’s mural designs on the theme of Prohibition; and Paul Cadmus’s The Fleet’s In, which caused a scandal at the PWAP’s 1934 national exhibition


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