Fragrance Garden
Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park
This statue was part of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition on Treasure Island. It is by Clara Huntington who has been on this site before. Huntington was the adopted daughter of Collis Potter Huntington, one of the Big Five railroad magnates.
“Oh, Clara Huntington, yes, Clara Huntington Young. She is an older woman, much older than I, and she did the St. Francis figure, you remember, that was among the daisies. I think she’d worked some in the East. But I think it was when I first moved up here that she called me and offered me a model’s stand, a great big one, which I had to reject because I couldn’t put it in my little studio. But she was quite a bit older than I and she wasn’t working at the time. But she did that very nice bronze St. Francis. I think it had different flowers around it at different seasons in the Fair, but I remember it with a lot of daisies around it. She may not have done it just for the Fair, but it was a charming addition to the Fair, I thought. But she was a very good sculptor. She belonged to the old school.”
From an interview of Ruth Cravath Conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun
TWO SAN FRANCISCO ARTISTS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES, 1920-1975
