Western Addition
Turk and Fillmore Streets
Northern Police Station
This cast concrete panel by Horace Washington depicts the cultural diversity of the Western Addition and its architectural history. The panel also features the likeness of police officers of the past. The piece is part of the San Francisco Arts Commission collection and was produced in 1987. It is 3 feet high by 8 feet long.
Horace Washington (who has been in this blog before) studied at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio before moving to California to study sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute and then completed his graduate studies at Cal State University, Sacramento. He is a San Francisco sculptor and muralist whose works include numerous projects in a variety of materials for public facilities in northern California including the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousmen’s Union mural/ scultpure, the Northern Police Station sculpture, the Martin Luther King Swimming Pool Tile Murals, and the Plaza East ceramic tile and painted mural. He exhibits his work in San Francisco and has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, Cal State Sacramento, and for the San Francisco Unified School District. He has also taught developmentally disabled adults at the Creativity Explored Art Center. He lives and works in San Francisco.
I just love it when the sculptures depict history and those special people who need to be remembered for their city or country. These are so nice.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way the firemen are positioned over the home and buildings they protect. A great post. genie
This depicts the diversity of SF so beautifully -- love the arrangement of the faces and symbols.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful piece!
ReplyDeleteI thought this was older. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteInteresting artwork that you don't think to see on the outside of a police station.
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