Allegorical Panel: Wisdom - Berkeley, California
Posted by: DougK
N 37° 52.075 W 122° 16.332
10S E 564013 N 4191409
This large relief sculpture can be found above the east facing entrance to the Shop & Sciences Building at the Berkeley High School.
Waymark Code: WMKRZN
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2014
Views: 1
This relief sculpture is about 10-feet wide and 20-feet tall.
From the Smithsonian AIC Description:
A bas-relief of Wisdom as a robed woman holding a torch in her upraised proper right hand. Her proper left hand rests on a world globe, which rests in turn on several books. At her proper right side is some machinery, including an air-cooled engine and gears. Below this panel is a window, and below it and above an entry-way is a bas-relief of two figures, one male and one female, flanking the words "Science/Industry/Commerce."
TITLE: Allegorical Panel: Wisdom
ARTIST(S): sculptor: Lulu Hawkins Braghetta (1901- ); architects: Henry Higby Gutterson (1884-1954), William Corlett, Sr.; architectural firm: Gutterson and Corlett
DATE: 1939
MEDIUM: Painted concrete
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA000468
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION: Berkeley High School
2134 Martin Luther King Junior Way
Shop & Sciences Building, east side
Berkeley, California 94704
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None Noted
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