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View Comments 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 expressionis ....
Originally, the artist applied the canvas directly onto the entry wall of the David Freedman Company headquarters, where it remained until it was sold in the 1990’s. ....