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TEMPERA MARGARET PETERSON TREE FIGURES OF SIENNA

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TEMPERA MARGARET PETERSON TREE FIGURES OF SIENNA
TEMPERA ON PANEL 48'' x 66 1/2'', Margaret Peterson (1902-1997), CA. ''Tree Figures of Sienna''. Signed and dated '48' lower right. Titled on the verso. Paper label from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on the verso. Crazing/chipping center and upper/lower center. 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.