A decades-old mural at 71st Street and Jeffery Avenue by the late, revered artistic duo Mitchell Caton and Calvin Jones has been lauded as “a masterpiece,” its presence “like having a Van Gogh on the block.”
But the artwork, celebrating Black creativity, nearly was lost to history last month when another artist, with a roller and fresh paint, began painting over the piece, preparing the space for a new mural he thought he had permission to do there.
