Memorial Museum Mosaic, Robert Berkeley Green

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“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.”