Public Art and Architecture from Around the World

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Dancing Sprites by Henri Leon Greber – Bronze – Circa 1900

This statue sits on the California Street side of Huntington Park on the top of Nob Hill. It was donated to the city by Mrs. James Flood in 1942. It is owned by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Henri Léon Greber (1855-1941) was a French sculptor, and this work of his is a group of three nude children holding hands in a circle. A ribbon of cloth drapes around the children. They are dancing with legs uplifted. The bronze sculpture stands in the center of a round concrete base which is in the center of a fountain basin.

The Flood family made their money in the gold and silver fields and Mr. James L. Flood piled up millions as one of the “Bonanza Kings.”