Herman Roderick Volz (1904–1990) was a Swiss-American painter, muralist, lithographer, set designer, decorative artist and ceramist. As an advocate for political and civil rights, he often depicted men at work in docks, piers and railroad yards, over the industrial background of San Francisco.
Read an “Oral history interview with Herman Volz“, 1964 June 27, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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