Memorial Museum Mosaic, Robert Berkeley Green

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Robert Berkeley Green, Memorial Museum Mosaic
Robert Berkeley Green, Memorial Museum Mosaic
Robert Berkeley Green
Memorial Museum Mosaic
1937
Robert Berkeley Green
1909–2007
Memorial Museum Mosaic, 1937
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: watercolor; gouache
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 60.3 x 62.9 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 23 3/4 x 24 3/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 36 x 30 in
Credit line: Gift of Robert and Miriam Green
Accession number: 1996.0085
Not on display
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Archive Label: “I believe this was the result of an assignment to make something in collaboration with an architect. He designed the museum and I designed the decoration. That’s a clerestory up there at the top. The white and gold suggest early mosaics. And it looks like the apse of a church. “There’s a lot of humor in it, in the Hart Shaffner and Marx. The boat there has the name Octurus. That was a type of underwater research building that was used in the early days of underwater discovery. That’s Hart Shaffner and Marx [in the center] and the caption says these were the first men to discover the holy mackerel. “Some of those are names of unusual fish. Macrocropie. I’m not sure where I was when I did this. The scale figure will give you an idea of what women’s style was.”