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 Sather Gate - Berkeley, CA Posted by:  saopaulo1
N 37° 52.214 W 122° 15.569
10S E 565130 N 4191675
Sather Gate is located in the middle of UC Berkeley's campus. It's one of the university's most known landmarks.
Waymark Code: WM7P4R
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/16/2009
Views: 7
From the inventory: "Four granite pillars support the central arch and two side arches of a gate. The arches are ornately ornamented cast bronze with a green patina. Eight marble bas-relief panels are attached to the north and south sides of the granite pillars. Each of the four panels on the south side features a full-length nude female figure, representing Agriculture, Architecture, Art, and Electricity respectively. Each of the four panels on the north side features a full-length nude male figure representing Law, Letters, Medicine and Mining respectively. Each of the pillars is topped with a clear glass globe held in bronze framework.
The gates were designed by the university's architect, John Galen Howard. Cummings designed and sculpted the marble panels. California Artistic Metal & Wire Company constructed the bronze gateways. $10,000 was donated to the University by Mrs. Jane Sather for the construction of the gates, in honor of her husband Peder Sather, a California banker. There was controversy over the nude figures on the panels after they were installed in December 1909, and in May 1910 they were replaced with plain marble panels. The relief panels were placed in university storage. In 1977 two of the panels were rediscovered in storage. The other six panels, discovered at a local monument company, were returned to the university. In Dec. 1979 all eight panels were re-installed on the gate pillars. The original gates had four large granite urns topping the pillars."
TITLE: Sather Gate
ARTIST(S): Cummings, Melvin Earl, 1876-1936, sculptor. Howard, John Galen, architect. California Artistic Metal and Wire Company, founder.
DATE: 1909-1912.
MEDIUM: Gates: bronze with patina; Panels: marble; Pillars: granite.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA001253
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Located University of California, Berkeley, South side of campus, near Telegraph Avenue & Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94720
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
None
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