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The Berkshire Eagle, Thursday, Nov. 12. 1981-11 ENTERTAINMENT HERE THERE Gigantic mural in Boston created by Morgan Bulkeley IV The high, 45-foot long painting is installed on the wall of a Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority building on Newbury Street. jjjjjypjjl fjJ 3. For the 1800s, Ralph Waldo Emerson holds a facsimile of the tree on toe first coin of "Masathu-sets," the pine tree shilling.

Dorothea Dix, who worked to better the conditions of the insane, ponders humanity's knowledge: the appie, the stone axe, the broad axe, and the nuclear bomb. 4. For toe 1900s, John Kennedy hands my Aunt Lucille a candle, passing on the spirit of hope. Behind them hangs a painting painted in the mural by Toni Dove, another of Boston's contemporary artists. The forms in the lower left field signify the aging of a galaxy, which begins as a flattened ellipse, gradually grows arms, and is finally a complicated spiral nebula.

The brown, nose-like form is exactly that, a remnant from earlier sketches when I had considered treating the three arches as three masks. The ticket taker in the middle, Henry David Thoreau, seemed particularly appropriate for the central figure as he was totally dedicated to nature and spiritual search. His simple advice, "Simplify," should be a profound insight for anyone caught in the bustle of modern life. Sitting in the window is John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston when the town government was replaced by a city charter, in 1822. In front of him is a rock and bronze sculpture by David Phillips, one of Boston's fine sculptors.

The reflection in toe window is a murky, future self-portrait when I'm old and bearded. The grey building to toe right is typical of paintings I have been doing of Boston area houses, and the painting is signed there. The whole mural sits on trolley wheels to emphasize the idea of motion, space-time change which is the context and fabric of our lives. In fact, the mura would have been under water if Back Bay hadn't been filled in from 1859-1880 by soil hauled in from Needham. 5.

Gerald Bergstein, one of the fine artists living in Boston now. Adjacent to this panel is a contemporary car of the Green Line, which runs beneath the mural (and which, incidentally, originates from Lech-mere Station, the area where the mural was painted). On the left side are several objects associated with travel, the snail, the blimp nose, and an MBTA hat. The wing of a goshawk peeks into three spaces in the painting. The right side of the left panel contains a glimpse of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, from 1825-1829, swimming in Boston Harbor, as he often did, with his nightcap to prevent sunburn on his bald head.

He was a fierce opponent of slavery and the foremost spokesman for individual liberty. The central and smallest arch is a reflection of Johnson's Paint Store across the street. The parking meter clicks away time; the foot entering and departing represents another, more personal kind of time; and in the deepest space an egg, a palette, and a bone suggest the life cycle of birth, action, death. Above, in toe right window, Miros-lav, Sasha, and Maya Antic (two Boston artists with their baby) look at a sculpture envisioned by Miro of a chair projected in space. The right arch contains five windows, one for each of the four centuries of Boston settlement, and one empty for the future to fill.

1. For toe 1600s, Massasoit, the Wampanoag sachem who greeted the Pilgrims, greets a wood thrush, one of New England's best singers. 2. Crispus Attucks, of toe 1700s, was killed in the Boston Massacre, the first American to die in toe Revolution. Behind him, someone hands out a drawing called "An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia," done by Timothy Pickering of Salem for the Colonial drillmasters after toe Boston Tea Party.

In front is my great grandfather's dog, Ranger. "Little Women" and "Little Men." 1 John Winthrop, who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony after the colony's government moved to Boston from Salem in 1630. Morgan Bulkeley IV, son of Mr: and Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkeley of 515 Holmes Road, is an artist who divides his time between Boston and his summer home in Mount Washington, where he was born 36 years ago.

A 1966 graduate of Yale University, he has won several prizes for painting and sculpture. Bulkeley recently completed a 45-foot mural in Boston which has been installed the outside wall of a Massachusetts Bay Transport Com-any building at 354 Newbury a half block from Massachusetts Avenue. The 18-foot high painting was done with enamel on steel panels and is reportedly weather and graffiti proof. It was funded by a federal program called One Per Cent for the Arts in which one per cent of the cost for a building that has federal funds behind it must be used for art work. The following is an explanation by the artist on what his mural is about: the rhythm of the growing grass, the forms of galaxies, the spiral curve of the snail, compared to the faceted forms, bricks, clapboards, train compartments, lettered signs, the gridding of asphalt.

Hopefully, a sense of our interaction and ultimate dependence on larger, more universal themes will be conveyed by the mural. Along with the abstract concept contained in the basic design is a specific attempt to locate historical references, a mixture of images gathered from the time since Boston was colonized. In the left panel, the central image is of the open trolley typical of the type used when Boston opened the first subway on the American continent in 1897. Its riders from front to rear are: 1. Captain James Mugford who, on May 17, 1776, with the fishing smack "Franklin" captured the English powder ship, "Hope," la-dened with one million dollars worth of arms and powder, this at a time when Washington's Army was in very short supply.

It was one of the most important events of the Revolutionary War. 2. John Adams, second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. 3. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) wrote several books, including III.

Pemberton) is the backbone of the piece, tying the three arches of the building together; secondly, the three mountains are seen in another dimension of space in the door frames of the left panel. Juxtaposed with, and interrupting the curvilinear and organic forms of the earth our city is built on, are the angular, geometric shapes the human constructs of doors and windows. The contrast of these forms and visions sets up a dialogue between the natural world with the more measured urban structures. We are, at this time in history, confronted by the implications of the flight of birds, By Morgan Bulkeley IV MY MURAL, "Tramount," was originally conceived as a piece about the fragmentary nature of time and space, an idea reinforced by movement through a city a continually changing sequence of information and story. This theme seemed particularly appropriate as it was commissioned by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.

The main image of the three mountains (Boston was originally called "Tramount" or "Tri-mountain," the three hills being Beacon Hill, Mount Vernon and Detail from painting shows Thoreau, John Phillips in booth and, in reflection, the artist himself as an old man. jm i mm nst in ivin jl it. 9 BUCKSTEEP Berkshire Mt Madeline Cantarella Culpa Artistic Director presents 0Mf I CARPET SAVINGS MANOR presents IN THE BARN TONIGHT SONS OF ITALY Melody Ln. No. Adams featuring "NIGHT BEAR" Thurt.

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