Lotus and Dragonfly, Robert Berkeley Green

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Robert Berkeley Green, Lotus and Dragonfly
Robert Berkeley Green, Lotus and Dragonfly
Robert Berkeley Green
Lotus and Dragonfly
1983
Robert Berkeley Green
1909–2007
Lotus and Dragonfly, 1983
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: watercolor; graphite
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 657 x 512 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 25 7/8 x 20 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 33 x 28 in
Credit line: Gift of Robert and Miriam Green
Accession number: 1996.0081
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Archive Label: “There are bass minnows in the water below the lotuses. And the water in the middle of the leaf creates a kind of magnification. There aren’t really cast shadows; it’s a variation of color. It’s not really light and shade as such, it’s just color variations, as you would see in the water. The water almost makes it a pattern, indicating a reflection on the water. “I did this all right on site. There’s a pond by Lakeview and I had a plastic boat I’d get out in. I had a special seat that I could put across the edges of the boat. One day two cranes came flying over and I must have moved a little and one went squawking one way and the other went in the other direction. In the upper flower in the lotus you can see there’s a shift in the diadelphic stamen, when they change the diadelphic stamen turns green and the color of the petals begins to take on a darker tone. The upper one has a sort of bluish cast and a warm yellowish cast and the lower one has more of a greenish gray and some of the veins in the petals become stronger. You might notice that.”