The plain white walls in the hallway of the venerable #SanFrancisco Art Institute tightly clutched their secret for more than eight decades — buried beneath a dozen layers of paint. But a new effort to turn back the decades and peel away the paint has bared one of those secrets — a fully intact 1930s fresco painted by Frederick Olmsted Jr. Joe Rosato Jr. reports. #murals #art

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