Julian Escondon, a union painter for the John W. Egan Company, worked on the top of the National Grid rainbow gas tank last month. John Doherty photo
A team of union painters have just completed a four-month project to re-paint the National Grid gas tank on Dorchester Bay. The workers for the John W. Egan company — all members of the Painters District Council 35 based in Roslindale— touched up fading swatches of Corita Kent’s iconic rainbow design, which remains the largest copy-written piece of art in the world.