Who painted the " Man at the Crossroads " mural ?
A fresco painted in 1934 as part of the larger Coit Tower mural project ( which Zakheim also helped organize and oversee ) , the work reflects both Zakheim 's own political orientation ( fellow artist John Langley Howard reaches for a copy of Das Kapital ) as well as specific news events happening at the time ( one of the newspaper headlines says " Local Artists Protest Destruction of Rivera 's Fresco " , referring to the destruction of Diego Rivera 's " Man at the Crossroads " the year before ) .