Tag: San Francisco
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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SOMA – Time Signature
Howard at First Street Foundry Square SOMA Time Signature Richard Deutsch *Richard Deutsch has several sculptures around San Francisco. This piece has it’s own video on Richard’s website, and I highly recommend that you go and view it. The film is a work of art unto itself, and I could not do justice to the…
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Keith Haring
SOMA Moscone Center Corner of Howard and 3rd Streets This piece has become iconic in the city. It is viewed by anyone that is heading into the Moscone Convention Center. Keith Haring is controversial on his best days. Which is sad because he was a truly gifted artist who was passionate about facing up to…
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Bankers Heart
Financial District – San Francisco 555 California Street This is in the center of A.P. Giannini Plaza. A.P. Giannini was born in San Jose, California and was the Italian American founder of the Bank of America. He founded the Bank of Italy in 1904. The bank was housed in a converted saloon directly across the…
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Alamo Square
Alamo Square – San Francisco Alamo Square is surrounded by Victorian Houses, and the famous “painted ladies” photograph that is quintessentially San Francisco, to say nothing of the fact that it’s image is probably the number one selling postcard. I see no point in posting that picture, you have seen it. I even hesitate to…
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Mission District- Balmy Avenue
Balmy Alley, Mission District, San Francisco. Part II. Part of the wooden cut out mural at the 24th end of Balmy Alley “The birth of a silence is written in the agony of a sigh” I continue with just a few more Balmy Alley murals today. There are many, many more and I again encourage…
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Mission District – Public Post
Valencia Street Between 16th and 19th, Mission District, San Francisco Valencia Street Post by Michael Arcega * Crafted out of steel and aluminum and painted with a durable urethane alkyd enamel, the ornamental crowns are sort of Victorian architecture that is intended to recall the neighborhood’s past history. The Department of Public Works added a…
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Icons of San Francisco – Transamerica Pyramid
, An iconic image for San Francisco, the Transamerica Pyramid. It was designed by architect William Pereira, and when it was first built it engendered considerable argument. You either hated it or loved it, there seemed to be no in between. Forty Eight stories or 850 feet tall, it was among the five tallest buildings…
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The Presidio-Andy Goldsworthy
The Presidio Near the Arguello Gate Entry I have always been a fan of Andy Goldsworthy. I love the ethereal and temporary aspect of his work. This is titled Spire and is at the beginning of the Bay Area Ridge Trail near the Arguello Gate, west of Inspiration Point Overlook and north of the Presidio…
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Admission Day Monument on Market Street
Admission Day Monument Market, Post and Montgomery Streets Like the Mechanics Monument down the street, this work is by Douglas Tilden. Commissioned by Mayor James D. Phelan and unveiled on September 5, 1897. The monument commemorates the admission of California into the Union. The angel atop the statue is said to have been modeled after…
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Path of Gold Street Lamps
Market Street The Ferry Building to Castro Street * * * Known as the Path of Gold due to their golden hue which emanates from yellow sodium vapor lamps the 33-foot high lampposts along Market Street were designated historic landmarks in 1991. The 327 Path of Gold standards are a legacy from the City Beautiful…
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Os Gemeos First Go Around
Mid Market near 6th Untitled by Os Gemeos Os Gemeos means “the twins” in Portuguese and is pronouced “Ose Zhe’-mee-ose.” These two identical twin brothers (born 1974) hail from São Paulo, Brazil. Their real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a main influence in the local…
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Embarcadero Interpretive Signage and Walkway
The Embarcadero Waterfront Transportation Project Historic and Interpretive Signage Program * * * * * This interpretive signage program was created in 1996 and covers 2.5 miles of the Embarcadero. The project includes 22, 13 foot high posts, vertical history stations and bronze inlays. these metal black-and-white-striped pylons are imprinted with photographs, stories, poetry in…
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Mahatma Gandhi and the Controversies
Ferry Building Foot of Market Embarcadero This statue of Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi is by Zlatko Paunov. Presented to the City of San Francisco by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation, it sits on the water side of the Ferry Building. Its location is intentional, as to honor Gandhi’s “Salt March to the Sea” Its objective is…