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In this famously left-of-center city, liberals are battling liberals over these Depression-era frescoes that have offended some groups. The works were created in the mids by Victor Arnautoffa social realist, for the Works Progress Administration, an agency created under Franklin D. Arnautoff, who was born in Russia and taught at Stanford, was a Communist who embedded messages critical of the founding father in his murals. He depicted Washington, accurately, at a time when that was rarely acknowledged, as a slave owner and the leader of the nation that annihilated Native Americans. There are no cherry trees.

Around the country in recent years, people have been questioning historical representations in public art. Confederate statues and monuments have been dismantled. But the Washington High frescoes present a different issue. What they symbolize is open to interpretation.

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But by the late s, his art aroused anger. The school district responded by adding contemporary murals by the African-American artist Dewey Crumpler Americajs The additional artwork did not satisfy Ms. Anderson and others opposed to the murals. Stevon Cook, president of the San Francisco Board of Education, wants the paintings covered or removed.

One of them is Ms. But scholars see something else in the murals: history. Robert W.]