Graffiti Art at Larwill Park, Vancouver
Date + Time: Friday, June 19, 2009. Approximately 2:30PM.
Location: Wall along Larwill Park, Beatty Street between W. Georgia Street and Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Photo Credit: Marcus Emmanuel Barnes of marcusebarnes.com. 
Description (Keywords): Distorted person, fat face, blue-grey-cool colors, graffiti, photograph.
Misc. Notes: There are many other pieces of graffiti art on the wall along Beatty Street (some of which will be highlighted in future posts). They were all probably added to the wall with permission, so they are rather permanent and won’t be painted over (i.e., destroyed) any time soon.
Technical Notes: Photo taken with an Olympus Stylus 300 digital camera (a point-and-click).
If you happen to be the artist who created this piece of graffiti art, it would be cool if you could add comments below about the piece or even submit a short article to Graffiti Near Me discussing the work.
The wall was painted by 15 graffiti artists all with differing styles and skill levels. The piece shown above was painted by Ben Tour. The Beatty Wall was painted blue Dec. 23, 2009 by the City of Vancouver in preparation for the olympics. I guess it didn’t appeal to everyone.
Hi Milan,
Thanks for the information on The Beatty Wall graffiti and murals. I’m shocked to learn that the city painted over the wall — I will have to go see this for myself and take a picture. One of the purposes of Graffiti Near Me is to capture graffiti, tag, mural, and other street art before this kind of thing happens and the art work is lost forever.
Thank you for your comment!
All the best,
M.E.B.