Called to Rise - San Francisco, CA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
N 37° 47.524 W 122° 24.016
10S E 552803 N 4182914
A bas relief on Pine St in San Francisco.
Waymark Code: WMA826
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/29/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
Views: 11

The piece is above the entrace way of an office building in San Francisco. It consists of twenty busts of people that make up San Francisco history. The busts are:

- Juan Bautista de Anza
- Eadweard J. Muybridge
- Makoto Hagiwara
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Chingwah Lee
- Ishi and Alfred Louis Kroeber
- Phillip Burton
- Amadeo Peter Giannini
- Benjamin Franklin Norris
- Timothy Pflueger
- Douglas Tilden
- Kurt Herbert Adler
- John Young
- Robert Dollar
- Howard Thurman
- John Swett
- Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy
- Charlotte Amanda Blake Brown
- Harry Bridges
- Mary Ann Magnin

The busts are cast in bronze. Each panel has the artists signature on it.
TITLE: Called to Rise

ARTIST(S): Marsh, Thomas, 1951- , sculptor. Pan, Qiliu, 1928- , sculptor. Coleman Art Foundry, founder.

DATE: Cast 1990.; Copyrighted 1990.; Dedicated 1991.

MEDIUM: Bronze

CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA000059

Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]

PHYSICAL LOCATION:
London and Edinborough Trust, 235 Pine Street, Above entrance, San Francisco, California 94104


DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
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