Artist Ellen Harvey has been commissioned by UCSF to create a new public art project, titled “The Forest of Parnassus,” which will feature the longest-living inhabitants of the flagship campus in a series of paintings. The idea is to record the past and to provide an iconic visual identity for the Parnassus campus.Harvey is proposing to create 28 paintings, 30 x 30 inches, in oil on aluminum panels for UCSF. Each painting will be a portrait of a tree or trees that exist on the Parnassus campus with the buildings as background. The works will be clustered together and hung in prominent interior spaces throughout the campus and will be relocated when necessary. The actual sites have not yet been determined at this stage of the project.
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