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(4 min read)<\/strong> After more than 50 years of usage as a simple storage space, the crumbling 1904 structure known as the Old Art Gallery is finally getting a much-needed revamping. Its most notable features, 18-by-10-foot colorful mosaics, are currently being repaired and restored, so that future generations of UC Berkeley can enjoy them in all of their intricate glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ongoing restoration of the Burton sister’s mosaic mural. Image source: Link<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019ve ever had the pleasure of taking a walk across the UC Berkeley campus you\u2019ve probably stopped to admire the facade of the small one-story red brick building near Strawberry Creek. The amazing Byzantine-style mosaic tile murals gracing its east facade were always somewhat of a marvel on this otherwise quite ordinary decaying building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lovely east facade of the 1904 UC Berkeley building. Image source: Link<\/a> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Gorgeous mosaic artworks depict people playing music, dancing, sculpting, and painting. Mosaics were installed in 1936 and 1937 as part of the Works Progress Administration. Four large-scale mosaic murals, adorning the shallow arched niches of the building are called \u201cMusic and Painting\u201d and \u201cSculpture and Dancing\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Works Progress Administration lettering mosaic. Image source: Link<\/a> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The mosaic mural \u201cMusic and Painting\u201d was designed and created by the famous abstract artist Florence Alston Swift. Swift was born in San Francisco, CA in 1890. As a San Francisco native, she began her art studies at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute, known today as the San Francisco Art Institute. She completed her studies in New York where she became an esteemed member of the influential group called American Abstract Artist. Swift exhibited her masterpieces in venues in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Florence Alston Swift\u2019s \u201cMusic and Painting\u201d. Image source: Link<\/a> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Swift\u2019s panel features two colorfully dressed women playing violins and one woman carrying paintbrushes and a painting palette. Swift also designed and created charming patterns around the doorway and to the right side of the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mosaic designs created by Florence Alston Swift. Image source: Link<\/a> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cSculpture and Dancing\u201d mosaic mural was officially designed by Helen Bruton, but it was in fact a joined effort of three women. At the time only one family member could be employed by the Works Progress Administration, so Bruton and her sisters, Margaret and Esther, completed the mural with Helen Bruton as the lead artist. Their mosaic mural depicts a man carving stone with a hammer and a chisel, and three women dancing. It is said that the Bruton sisters used Robert Boardman Howard, son of architect John Galen Howard, as a model for the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Close-up of the \u201cSculpture and Dancing\u201d mosaic mural. Image source: Link<\/a> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bruton sisters were exceptionally talented Bay Area artists who were actively creating art from the early 1920s through the 1960s. During their long-lasting and prolific careers, they\u2019ve mastered a wide variety of different mediums, including watercolor, oil painting, printmaking, terrazzo, and, most famously, mosaic art. Their large-scale mosaic created for Mother\u2019s Building is considered to be the first publicly executed mosaic in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mosaic art on the wall of the Mother\u2019s Building in San Francisco, created by the Bruton sisters. Image source: Link<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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When John Galen Howard designed the building more than a century ago its function was that of a power house. Once the renovations are over the building will return to its original function, becoming the Switch Station #8. However, this time it will be fulfilling its original purpose as part of the Clean Energy Campus, helping Berkeley transition to 100% clean energy by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Redying the building for its new, environmentally conscious purpose. Image source: Link<\/a> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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So, as the world is moving forward and humanity is marching into hopefully some more conscious and sustainable times, we shouldn\u2019t forget our art. I say \u201cour\u201d because public art in deed is ours and before we start creating anew, we should take care of those old witnesses that silently and gracefully followed us through centuries. Decaying mosaic murals on our buildings, crumbling gargoyles on our churches, discolored stone sculptures gracing our squares, decaying canvases on our interior walls\u2026 Let\u2019s revive them before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/br>

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