Rinaldo Cuneo

Cuneo was a San Francisco native born on July 2, 1877. He grew up on Telegraph Hill and as a teenager is said to have participated in jousts at the Observatory. He also served three years during the Spanish American War. He studied art in London, Paris and at the CSFA. Cuneo was sometimes called the "Painter of San Francisco" and was widely known for his landscape paintings. Despite the talent obvious in the panels at Coit Tower, he augmented his income as an artist by taking a waterfront job with the Crowley Launch and Tugboat Company, which greatly influenced his art. Cuneo died unexpectedly of cancer in 1939, leaving an artistic legacy of more than a hundred works scattered in corners, under books and even facing backwards on walls in his studio. 

Works at Coit Tower:

Bay Area Hills