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 Bicentennial Wings - San Francisco, CA Posted by:  DougK
N 37° 43.595 W 122° 26.974
10S E 548505 N 4175622
Bicentennial Wings is one portion of a sculpture commissioned in 1975 for the City College of San Francisco by Jacques Overhoff. It features red and blue ceramic tiles in the artwork.
Waymark Code: WMB4MP
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2011
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Bicentennial Wings is one portion of the large artwork, Sculpture Deck and Bicentennial Wings on the campus of City College of San Francisco. From the name and the date, this work was comissioned to celebrate the Spirit of '76. A one minute video tour of the whole sculpture can be seen on YouTube.
The Bicentennial Wings portion is located just off the plaza outside Batmale Hall. Both pieces have blue and red ceramic tiles in geometric patterns. The wings are about 20 feet tall. The sculpture is listed on the CCSF website of Art on Campus.
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| Bicentennial Wings
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Bicentennial Wings, Front
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The Bicentennial Wings are two large irregular curved concrete forms that are mirror images of each other.
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| Bicentennial Wings, from the Back
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Bicentennial Wings, from the Back Right
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Next to the Sculpture Deck is a raised square table or bench. The top surface is divided into four squares within. Three of the squares have an assortment of straight lines curved lines and a circle. The fourth square has some words about the art piece and signed by the author, but the wording is very hard to makes out because of wear on the concrete letter. Here is the wording that I could determine:
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JACQUES OVERHOFF, ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTOR
WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE
SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
TO CREATE THIS PUBLIC PROJECT.
[undetermined line]
[undetermined words] ROBINSON
[undetermined line]
[undetermined words] SCULPTURE PLAZA
WAS CONCEIVED AS AN INTERRELATIONSHIP
OF SPATIAL FORMS FOLLOWING STRICT
PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY 1975-1979
JACQUES OVERHOFF
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Address or General Location of Marker: Outside Batmale Hall, City College of San Francisco
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