Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

Category: Sunset District

  • SurfHenge

    SurfHenge

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    Taraval and 48th Street Sunset District These sculptures designed by DPW landscape architect Martha Ketterer  are part of the Taraval Streetscape Improvement Project.  The design combines the lightness and fragility of surfboards or sails with monumental weight and verticality.  The work was then adorned with tile work by Colette Crutcher suggestng the ceaseless dance of…

  • SFAC Shame on You

    SFAC Shame on You

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    1351 24th Avenue Outer Sunset This travesty sits in front of the San Francisco Department of Public Health Building. The only photograph I could find was through the Smithsonian Institute. The sculpture, titled Sailor and Mermaid, originally was made of copper sheets, cut, pounded, and welded, with bronze. It sits on a concrete pad. It was…

  • When Infrastructure Buildings Kept Beauty in Mind

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    2920 23rd Avenue Merced Manor / Sunset District This classical building is the Central Pump Station.  Designed by Willis Polk and built in 1936, it sits atop the asphalt capped Merced Manor Reservoir which holds 9.5 million gallons of water to supply the city of San Francisco.  The building has been attributed to N. A.…

  • Carl G. Larsen. Chickens to Jet Fighters

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    Larsen Park 19th Avenue at Ulloa Sunset District This plaque can be found on the corner of 19th Avenue and Ulloa.  The plaque was done  by  M. Earl Cummings in 1913 of Carl G. Larsen. Cummings has appeared prominently in this website for the many sculptures he has done around town. “In the late 1800s, many…

  • Tigers and Cougars at the Zoo

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    San Francisco Zoo Outer Sunset Tiger II by Gwynn Murrill Gwynn Murrill has always worked with animals as her subject matter. She captures the beauty of her subjects and their particular postures with astonishing authority. Stripped of surface detail and complexity, the subject is reduced to the essence of its being and the sculptures are…

  • Sunset Playground’s New Fencing

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    2201 Lawton Sunset District Sunset Playground This piece was commissioned by the SFAC for $70,000.  The artist selected was Bryan Tedrick. Brian is a local boy, born in Oakland, he holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a prolific and very versatile metal sculptor. These five sculptural elements were inspired by the…

  • Fish are swimming near Ocean Beach

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    39th and Ortega Ortega Library Ocean Beach Wowhaus consists of artists Scott Constable and Ene Oseraas-Constable. These two artists were also responsible for the Sunnyside Menagerie at the Sunnyside Conservatory here in San Francisco.   Located near the entrance of the library, the artwork features a duo of large-scale, glass mosaic fish sculptures. The sculptures…

  • Penguin’s Prayer

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    1100 Lake Merced Blvd. Sunset District Penguin’s Prayer by Beniamino Bufano Placed by Lake Merced Neighborhood Organization Bufano Society of the Arts Dedicated December 4, 1976   This sculpture by prolific, and San Francisco darling, Benny Bufano was originally made for the Treasure Island Golden Gate Exposition of 1939.

  • Carlos II, King of Spain Gazes out over Harding Park

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    7-99 Harding Road Lake Merced – Sunset District The sculpture of Carlos III was a gift to the city from King Juan Carlos I of Spain in honor of the Bicentennial of the City of San Francisco. CARLOS III, KING OF SPAIN Settler of California, champion of the cause of the American Independence, who directed…

  • Juan Bautista de Anza at Lake Merced

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    Lake Merced * This equestrian statue of Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, founder of the City San Francisco, is located in a parking lot off Lake Merced Boulevard on the north shore of the Lake. A plaque, in both Spanish and English, on the statue base reads: As a high tribute to an illustrious historical…

  • Peace by Bufano

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    800 Brotherhood Way Peace by Benny Bufano Located at the entrance to the San Francisco Airport for almost forty years”Peace” was relocated to make way for a parking garage.  After restoration it was moved to Brotherhood Way, where it stands now. Benny Bufano was born in Italy in 1898, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano came to the…

  • Sunset District – Propeller on the Walk Way

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    The Sunset District The Great Highway at Riviera Standing here, looking out towards the Pacific you will find art at your feet.  You will also guess, at this point that it is covered in a lot of sand. Propeller by Richard Deutsch This granite and marble terrazzo paving piece has bronze nautical elements inlaid into…

  • Birds at the J.P. Murphy Playground

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    Inner Sunset J. P. Murphy Playground 1960 9th Avenue Woman with Birds by Michael J. Carey This divine park, that includes several tennis courts and a wonderful rec room is surrounded by these giant hedges.  The hedges make a perfect backdrop for this sculpture. Michael Carey said: ““My intent with the sculpture for the J.…