Administered by City and County of San Francisco San Francisco Arts Commission 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240 San Francisco California 94102
Located Lincoln Park Parking lot east of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco California 94121
Date:
1880-1920. Installed ca. 1924
Notes:
Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1993.
Image on file.
(Base, right side:) A. Rodin (Base, back lower right:) Alex Rudier / Fondeur, Paris (Granite base, front:) MDCCCXXXVII/.TO./.RAPHAEL. WEILL./OFFICIER.DE.LA.LEGION.D'HONNEVR/.NATIVE.OF.FRANCE./FROM.HIS.MANHOOD.AN. AMERICAN.CITIZEN/.PATRIOTIC.PHILANTHROPIC.ART.LOVING/.SOMETIME.MEMBER.OF.THE.BOARD.OF.EDVCATION./.THIS.MEMORIAL.IS.ERECTED.BY.THE.PEOPLE.OF.SAN.FRANCISCO./.AS.A.TOKEN.OF.THEIR.AFFECTION./MCMXX signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A group of three male figures stand together almost in a circle on a rocky formation. The figures are nude and have strong muscular bodies. Each figure lowers its head and shoulders, and reaches forward, toward the center of the group, with one arm. The figures are positioned as if they are almost touching one another.
