Jane Berlandina, a painter, muralist, set designer for the San Francisco Opera House, and lecturer, was a highly visible artist in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. She was especially known for her modernist watercolors and for her abstract Depression-era, WPA murals that went against the grain of the prevalent American-Scene style. Among her work is the mural Home Life (1934), which she painted in Coit Tower in San Francisco, and which showed much influence of her teacher, Raoul Dufy. It was an era when Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist, had strong influence among prominent Northern California female muralists such as Emmy Lou Packard and Marian Simpson, but Berlandina was unique for holding to ...