Ellen Harvey, The Forest of Parnassus
2011, Parnassus Campus, UCSF
The Forest of Parnassus uses the longest-lived inhabitants of the Parnassus campus to record its past and to provide iconic visual identity for the campus. Ellen created 28 paintings, 30 x 30 inches, in oil on aluminum panels. Each painting is a portrait of a tree or cluster of trees on the Parnassus campus with the buildings as background.