Tag: Adeline Kent
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Adaline Kent sculptures on Treasure Island
Treasure Island Building #1 These cast stone statues are part of Adaline Kent’s group of three Pacific Islander statues that were among the twenty Pacific Unity sculptures produced for the Court of the Pacifica at the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. The two shown here are listening to a stringed instrument (most likely a ukelele)…
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Electric Substation and the Art World
8th and Mission SOMA * These two bas-reliefs in cast stone, titled Power and Light, sit on the 8th Street side of the Pacific Gas and Electric Mission Substation. The building was designed in 1948 by William Merchant. The sculptor was Robert B. Howard. William Gladstone Merchant was a San Francisco architect who trained in…