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  • Golden Gate Park – Poeme de la Vigne

    Golden Gate Park Music Concourse * * * * * Poeme de la Vigne by Gustave Doré Cast in Bronze 1882 This piece sits outside the deYoung Museum and the plaque attached reads: Gustave Doré created this vase for French winemakers, who exhibited it at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair. It represents an allegory of the…

  • Golden Gate Park – General Henry Wager Halleck

    Golden Gate Park *This is Major General Henry Wager Halleck. His sculptor was Carl H. Conrads. Halleck was general-in chief of armies in the US from 1862- 1864. He then became Secretary of State and helped frame the California Constitution. The statue was a gift of Halleck’s chief-of-staff General George W. Cullum and is located…

  • Golden Gate Park – James Garfield

    Golden Gate Park * * * The James Abram Garfield Monument sits on a prominent berm southeast of the Conservatory of Flowers. (For more information of the conservatory itself) According to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park by Chris Pollock and Erica Katz, this monument, the park’s oldest, memorializes the 20th president of the United States.  Garfield was tragically…

  • Golden Gate Park – Francis Scott Key

    Golden Gate Park Music Concourse  Francis Scott Key by William Wetmore Story To Francis Scott Key Author of the National Song The Star-Spangled Banner This Monument is Erected by James Lick Of San Francisco California A.D. 1887 * * This monument to Francis Scott Key was commissioned by San Francisco businessman James Lick, who donated…

  • Golden Gate Park – Apple Cider Press

    Golden Gate Park The Apple Cider Press by Thomas Shields Clark * *This 1892 Bronze sculpture was originally exhibited at the Midwinter International Exposition in 1894. The Apple Cider Bronze bears some resemblance to Douglas Tilden’s Mechanics Monument located on Market street in that it bears tribute to the value of hard work. However, this…

  • Golden Gate Park – Our National Pastime

    Golden Gate Park Our National Pastime by Douglas Tilden – 1889 Presented to the Golden Gate Park by a friend of the sculptor as a tribute to his energy, industry and ability Cruet Fondeur, Paris (John Cruet was a moldmaker in Paris, he also worked with Rodin. Fondeur means owner of the foundry) Tilden originally…

  • Golden Gate Park, The Music Concourse and Goethe and Schiller

    Golden Gate Park This is the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park.  It is flanked by the new Academy of Sciences and the New DeYoung Museum. A view of the DeYoung Two important things you should know about Golden Gate Park. It is bigger than Central Park and it was NOT designed by Frederick Law…