Relief of female herald, Berkeley High School - Berkeley CA
Description
Berkeley High School’s Community Theater is adorned with cast stone bas-relief sculptures by Robert Howard, son of architect John Galen Howard. The sculptures are on the exterior side of the building, along Allston Way and facing the Berkeley Civic Center park.
The central panel is around 30 feet high and contains a rich group of figures illustrating people of all races coming together through the arts. On each side is a panel of a herald blowing a trumpet, one male and one female, and the man is apparently African American.
The panels were paid for by the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1940 but not added to the building until its (delayed) completion in 1950.
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Howard bas relief on the Community Theater, Berkeley High School - Berkeley CA
Source notes
Berkeley Historical Society. Fall 2001. 20:3.
Project originally submitted by Gray Brechin on June 18, 2008.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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