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Tag: Lost Art

  • Paul Selinger piece is gone

    Paul Selinger piece is gone

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    This piece once stood in the Broderick and Bush Mini Park In 2010 the SFAC  de-accessed this piece due to damage, one can assume it was destroyed. “Civic Art Collection Senior Registrar Allison Cummings informed the Committee of the need to remove Paul Selinger’s sculpture Untitled, 1971 (Accession #1971.44) from its current location at Broderick…

  • Robert Reid and the GGIE

    Robert Reid and the GGIE

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    Palace of Fine Arts Location now: Unknown In keeping with the mission of this website to catalog all art owned by the San Francisco Art Commission, we would be remiss if we did not include one of the greater pieces of art from the Golden Gate International Exposition, that has been lost. Robert Lewis Reid’s…

  • The Lost Art of Leo Lentelli

    The Lost Art of Leo Lentelli

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    San Francisco Main Library Now the Asian Art Museum Sometime between 1915 and 1917, Leo Lentelli was commissioned to design five large sculptures for the facade of the Main Public Library, now the Asian Art Museum. In a March 1918 article titled “An Expression of Decorative Sculpture – Leo Lentelli,” published in The Architect and…