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This month, a mural once familiar to thousands of farmworkers in the Coachella Valley returns home. It depicts more than just the vineyards and grape pickers at David Freedman Company, where I once worked. It documents a path not taken for California agriculture, and its rural communities.
The mural which is being donated to the city of Coachella by my old boss Billy Steinberg was first commissioned for the company’s new packing plant and offices in the unincorporated town of Thermal, more than 40 years ago.
The 14-foot-by-7-foot work was created in 1979 by Laurence Neufeld, an art major whom Billy had met at Bard College in New York and who would go on to earn his degree from the University of Connecticut. Neufeld had studied the harvest paintings of Pieter Bruegel and Vincent van Gogh, and his mural was influenced by them. He did not want to paint the vineyards realistically this would have limited his color palette and instead used vivid expressionistic colors a
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This month, a mural once familiar to thousands of farm workers in the Coachella Valley returns home. It depicts more than just the vineyards and grape pickers at David Freedman Company, where I once worked. It documents a path not taken for California agriculture, and its rural communities.
The mural which is being donated to the city of Coachella by my old boss Billy Steinberg was first commissioned for the company’s new packing plant and offices in the unincorporated town of Thermal, more than 40 years ago.
The 14-foot-by-7-foot work was created in 1979 by Laurence Neufeld, an art major whom Billy had met at Bard College in New York and who would go on to earn his degree from the University of Connecticut. Neufeld had studied the harvest paintings of Pieter Bruegel and Vincent van Gogh, and his mural was influenced by them. He did not want to paint the vineyards realistically this would have limited his color palette and instead used vivid expressionistic colors a
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Kamala Harris dissolving PACs, giving money to charity
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 20.OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is dissolving her political fundraising committees as she prepares for her inauguration with President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, and will give the leftover money to California charities.
The dollar totals left in the accounts are far less than the tens of millions Harris raised as a candidate, most of which was spent on her unsuccessful run for president. But her decision to close the accounts, shared exclusively with The Chronicle, also leaves Harris with no active fundraising PACs of her own a signal to those who question whether her focus will be on a 2024 presidential campaign of her own rather than a Biden re-election.
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