Murals of the 12th District

Twelfth District | Los Angeles | Portland
Salt Lake City | San Francisco | Seattle

The pencil strokes of Walter Thomason capture the unique character of each of the five District Offices that meld together to form the Twelfth Federal Reserve District. The series of murals, commissioned by the FRBSF in 1978, hang in a non-public area of the headquarters building in San Francisco.

There are six murals - one for the District as a whole and five for the separate regional offices - portraying the historical development of each District office and highlighting persons, events, drawings of the Bank building, other landmarks and economic resources important to that area. The original illustrations were drawn in pencil then were enlarged to 3 feet by 6 feet by a photographic process which added the sepia tone.

Walter Thomason, the artist, is a San Francisco architect and illustrator. He was trained as an architect and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University. He practiced architecture in California from 1968 to 1975 then switched to full-time illustration in 1975. His work now primarily consists of producing architectural renderings.

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Twelfth District | Los Angeles | Portland
Salt Lake City | San Francisco | Seattle