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TEMPERA MARGARET PETERSON STUDY FOR A MURAL

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TEMPERA MARGARET PETERSON STUDY FOR A MURAL
TEMPERA ON PANEL 42 1/2'' x 49 1/2'', Margaret Peterson (1902-1997), CA. ''Study for a Mural''. Signed lower right; dated '1959' and titled on the verso. Paper label from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on the verso. Some slight cracking lower left. Placed in a fitted wood frame. A professor at UC Berkeley for over 22 years (where in 1950 she resigned during the infamous ''oath controversy''), Peterson was a Northwest native whose abstract style was influenced both by Northwest Indian art as well as the cubist style of Picasso. More info. in the white binder.