One month ago it looked like bye bye mural.
Today, it was hello new one.
Stephanie Taylor, the artist who created the mural, said at the time the old mural came down:
"It is finally being replaced by the vendor, Metromedia Technologies. They printed the original
mural in 1996. It lasted many more years than we expected, but finally started to fail in 2007.
The Downtown Partnership and the City paid to have it reprinted- it’s digital."
Today the mural was reinstalled.
Mike and Karen Winn, Winn Associates, have their office in the Elks Building, 7th floor. Their
view of the mural is perfect and they watched the day-long reinstallation.
And they also watched the preparation.
It took the workers one week to wash and completely remove the old mural with steam.
And they spent a day whitewashing the stucco, creating a surface it to which it would
adhere.
Today was like watching someone install wallpaper, they said.
The mural was installed in sections, top to bottom, just like wallpapering.
Using a squeegee, the sections were smoothed out painstakingly.
A gold plaque under the mural reads:
Sunday Morning in the Mines, 1872
see original painting at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Photos | Kati Garner
Photos were shot from Suite 700 in the Elks Building
