Gerald Burger's abstract painting hovers over the double stairway to the third floor of City Hall. Painted in soft yet vibrating colors on four large canvases, the painting is placed on a slanting back panel of a large map of early Cambridge that can be seen from the top of the staircase.
Burger painted murals for several public places in Cambridge in the 1970's, including the interior courtyard of Columbia Terrace in East Cambridge and the lobby of a large residential building in Cambridgeport. Beside faded remnants of a mural that MBTA commissioned for the underpass to the Lechmere Bus Station, the City Hall painting and a collaborative mural done with parents and kids at the Tobin Elementary School are the only two murals by Burger still existent in Cambridge.
Commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council. Funded by the U.S. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
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