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![]() Chronological listing of selected Bay Area Public Art (1981-1986).
1978, Financial District, "La Chiffoniere" Foot of Market Street, San Francisco. Jean Dubuffet (France). [M. Justin Herman] Plaza's other sculptures include a 1978 stainless steel with black epoxy tracings statue by the French artist Jean Dubuffet (Personal observation).
1981, Financial District, "The Tulip" Clay-Battery-Sacramento-Drumm Sts., San Francisco. John C. Portman, Jr. The [Embarcadero Center] towers, clad in rough-finished, precast concrete, are composed of slablike elements stepped to create 10 to 14 corner offices per floor instead of the usual four. Their slender profiles are a welcome departure from the heavier towers on the skyline. The city's requirement that one percent of development money be spent for art has endowed the Center with a number of works of art, including sculptures by Willi Gutman, Michael Biggers, Nicholas Schoffer, Anne Van Kleeck, Louise Nevelson, Barbara Showcroft, and Robert Russin. The great interior space [of the Hyatt Regency Hotel] has a monumental spherical sculpture of aluminum tubing by Charles Perry titled Eclipse (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 34). 1982, Civic Center, "Double L Excentric Gyratory" Larkin and Grove Sts., San Francisco. George Rickey. (Blanchard 2002: D1).
1983, Financial District, "Figure Four" 685 Market St., San Francisco. Nathan Oliveira Monadock Building Sculpture Garden: Bronze with patina, 40" x 21-3/4" x 30" (Personal observation).
1983, Financial District, "Angel" 720 Market St., San Francisco. Stephen de Staebler. Several years ago a winged bronze figure by Bay Area's sculptor Stephen de Staebler appeared without fanfare, nestled against a building facade on Market Street. Looking gnawed by time, as de Stabler's figures typically do, it reads as an elegy for the waning of humanism, in the symbolic form of a ruined angel. By not overreaching in scale, content or its bid for attention, the piece achieves an improbable grandeur (Baker, Keneth, San Francisco Chronicle, 12.23.02: D8).
1984, Financial District, "Teatrox" 685 Market St., San Francisco. Herk Van Tongeren Monadock Building Sculpture Garden: Bronze with patina, 108" x 184" x 89" (Personal observation).
1984, Sea Cliff/Richmond, "Holocaust Memorial" California Palace of the Legion of Honor on Lincoln Way, San Francisco. George Segal. (Blanchard 2002: D1).
1985, Financial District, "Aurora" 188 The Embarcadero, San Francisco. Ruth Asawa. [Bayside Plaza was] designed to reflect its waterside location with a sculpture by Ruth Asawa in front (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 36).
1985, Financial District, "Dancers" 685 Market St., San Francisco. Bryan Hunt Monadock Building Sculpture Garden: Bronze with patina on limestone base, 54" x 25" x 25" (Personal observation).
1985, Financial District, "Maori Column" behind Argent Hotel between Market and Mission Sts., San Francisco. Alan Shepp. Slate sculpture (Personal observation). Abbreviationsadd = Additions; nm = No Mention; rem = Remodelled; rest = Restoration |