Old Hotel Lewis mural updated (a lot!)

The former mural under the Hotel Lewis sign has been gone for several years. (You can see some of the vacant space in the first two photos below.) Late last year (2016), I noticed (couldn't help but notice!) a new, much larger mural just to the right of the old sign (which was still there, even more faded than before). I was super-busy then, so I waited until the dust settled (old joke… The dust never settles in Tucson…) — and parked in a no-parking zone along the Arizona Avenue alley to grab this photo on January 19, 2017 (with a trash container covering the bottom of the mural):

As Mark Fleming reminded me by email a couple of weeks ago, he had taken detailed photos of the same mural on December 10th. Here are his:

I found an photo of the old Julian Drew Building and Lewis Hotel, 178-188 E. Broadway Blvd., taken in 2004. It comes from Peg Price's Historic Tucson gallery on PBase.

Many thanks, Mark!

Update (April 10, 2019): The December 27, 2016 Street Art News article "Vergiss" by Fin DAC in Tucson, Arizona tells more.

Cavett close-up

Another of the mural-rich TUSD (Tucson Unified School District) schools is Cavett Elementary. We've had several entries with murals inside (and a few outside) this particular school.

One of the murals you can see (with permission from the school office!) is just along the hall from the office. It's one of the many school murals that Tucsonan muralist David Tineo made with help from students. We saw that mural — along with other murals — on our January 20, 2017 entry Cavett Elementary (you can click there to see it). Here's the last photo from that blog entry, showing the Tineo mural from the left end:

Without much of my usual editing to fix tilted edges, here are some parts of the mural that grabbed my eye as I wanted from left to right. The black stripe at top has quotes and the names of student artists.

David Aber and I met there — cameras ready to go! — on September 20, 2016.

TEP Substation

Joe Pagac recently completed a mural at the TEP substation near E. Prince Rd. and N. Mountain Ave. Photos taken on Mar. 5, 2017.  Click on any photo for larger and sharper images.

North Wall

First Panel on the East Wall

Second Panel on the East Wall

Third Panel on the East Wall

"Plants for the Southwest", a nursery

The nursery is located at 50 E. Blacklidge Dr.  However, the mural is on a separate, but attached, bldg. at 2936 N. Stone Ave.  Artistry by Rock "CYFI" Martinez and his assistant, Fernando Leon.

Front of bldg. attached to the West side of "Plants for the Southwest"

South side of 2936 N. Stone Ave.

Click on either photo for larger and sharper images.  Photos taken on Mar. 5, 2017.

Santa Rita High School

Santa Rita High School.  Home of the Eagles.

Photo taken on March 5, 2017.  Click on the photo for a larger and sharper image.

South Tucson tilework on the True Tucson blog

I just discovered the blog True Tucson. The story The art of tile, South Tucson style has a series of photos of the tile work next to streets in the city of South Tucson.

The Tucson Murals Project blog has some of those murals and others too. (To see them, use the search box at the right edge of the TucsonArt.info murals page and search for: South Tucson. Or zoom into South Tucson and scroll around its murals on the map:



You can see a bigger version of the mural map by clicking there.

Smitty's North Wall

This is the third and last wall around Smitty's Car Wash.

Photographed on Feb. 14, 2017.  Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.

Smitty's West Wall

This is the second of the three walls around Smitty's Car Wash.

Photographed on Feb. 14, 2017.  Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.

Smitty's South Wall

Several photos have been posted to this blog of murals found at Smitty's Car Wash.  There is also a wall around three sides of the car wash and this, the South wall, is the first of the three.

Photographed on Feb. 14, 2017.  Click on any photo for a slide show of larger and sharper images.

Music murals around the house

This home has murals of musicians. It's at 1121 West Fresno Street; Google wouldn't let me search for the location.

By the front door is a guitar made of iron. I grabbed this fragment from one of the photos you'll see below: the man holding what looks like a slice of bread (a sandwich?) with a bite out of the top. The bread has the caption "Yours truly Jack Smith" that's mentioned below.

Mark Fleming has contributed a number of photos to this blog. He sent these on March 5th (which is the same day his camera data says he took them). He wrote:

On West Fresno Street between Grande and Westmoreland, [this is a] private home, [we got] owner's permission. The murals can be seen from the street.

We asked permission to post on [this blog]; he said yes, we offered our names he did not reciprocate. One of the murals reads "Yours truly Jack Smith."

He's an oil painter and only does murals on his own home.

Let's see that mural and the other four:

Thanks a lot, Mark, and welcome back to the blog!

Morrow Residence, a (very!) 3-D “mural”

This blog normally shows “flat” art, but we make exceptions every once in a while. These walls are nowhere near flat!

"Armed with Styrofoam, rebar, aluminum foil, stucco, chicken wire, railroad spikes, cactus skeletons and his imagination, Gary Morrow began creating his version of a desert scene, one that is gradually encircling their house and yard."  "It'll be done when I'm done being alive.", he said.
Source: Arizona Real Estate News

West Wall on N. Park Ave.

South Wall on E. Gifford St.

Entry Gate on West Wall

West Wall - looking thru a rebar fence at two aliens descending from a spaceship

South Wall Detail

Cliff dwellings with tiny ladders and saguaros.  

Behind the wall is the alien space ship with a Pterodactyl on top.

More South Wall Detail

Photographed on Feb. 8, 2017.
Click on any photo for larger and sharper images.