Whaling Wall
An artist known only as Wyland put the final touches Monday on what was billed as the nation’s largest environmental mural.
The mural features 12 migrating whales that are 45 to 55 feet in length and a dolphin swimming among kelp that rises 70 feet from the ocean floor. It fills the west wall of Southern California Edison’s Redondo Beach Generating Station. Three thousand gallons of paint were used for the project, donated by Sinclair Paint Co.
The Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce commissioned the mural. Wyland has painted 30 other environmental murals in Australia, Canada, France and Japan.
Some of his works were auctioned on Monday, with proceeds going to two environmental groups, the American Oceans Campaign and Heal The Bay.
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