About this Work
About the Artist
American
b. 1877 San Francisco
d. 1939 San FranciscoRinaldo Cuneo was born into a family of San Francisco artists. Dubbed the "Painter of San Francisco", he was known for his landscape paintings and murals. He studied art in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco. His style ranged from an early Post-Impressionism and evolved toward Modern Tonalism. His works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Legion of Honor, the DeYoung Museum and at the 1935 inaugural exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Art. His WPA murals decorate two lunettes in the foyer of Coit Tower.
b. 1877 San Francisco
d. 1939 San FranciscoRinaldo Cuneo was born into a family of San Francisco artists. Dubbed the "Painter of San Francisco", he was known for his landscape paintings and murals. He studied art in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco. His style ranged from an early Post-Impressionism and evolved toward Modern Tonalism. His works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Legion of Honor, the DeYoung Museum and at the 1935 inaugural exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Art. His WPA murals decorate two lunettes in the foyer of Coit Tower.
