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Vaillancourt Fountain, (sculpture). Artist:  Vaillancourt, Armand, 1929- , sculptor. Halprin, Lawrence, 1916-2009, landscape architect. Title:  Vaillancourt Fountain, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Embarcadero Fountain, (sculpture). Dates:  Installed April 1971. Dedicated 1972. Medium:  Sculpture: aggregate concrete boxes and elements welded with structural steel tubes or with high tension non-corrosive alloy steel. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 30 x 11 x 5 ft. Inscription:  unsigned Description:  The fountain sculpture is composed of 101 concrete boxes through which water flows in fourteen channels. The basic elements of the sculpture are 10 foot concrete boxes which are roughly 11 ft. in length and 5 ft. square. Thirty-seven of the elements are connected to form the rear base wall and the remaining sixty-four elements are connected to a height of approximately 30 ft. The elements are hollow allowing water to flow through them and pour out into the fountain pool. The pool is approximately 3 feet wide and 18 inches deep, and it surrounds the back of the sculpture. Subject:  Abstract -- Geometric Object Type:  Fountain Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, California 94102 Located Justin Herman Plaza, Embarcadero, at the foot of Market Street, San Francisco, California 94111 Remarks:  Landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin collaborated with the artist on the design of the piece. The fountain sculpture was the winner of a limited international competition sponsored by the City of San Francisco in which five sculptors were invited to compete. IAS files contain sketches and notes of remarks prepared by Lawrence Halprin for a Dec. 3, 1966 presentation to the other competition sculptors; an unidentified article on Halprin which includes additional statements by Halprin on the sculpture; an excerpt from The Arts Commission of San Francisco's "San Francisco Civic Art Collection: A Guided Tour to Publicly Owned Art of the City and County of San Francisco," San Francisco, CA: Arts Commission of San Francisco, 1989, pg. 18; and articles from the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 29, 1969; the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, Feb. 23, 1969; and This World, Jan. 12, 1969 which describe some of the controversy that developed concerning the design of the sculpture. IAS files also contain newspaper clipping from San Francisco Chronicle that discusses possible redesign of the site after the 1989 earthquake destruction of the nearby Embarcardero Freeway. References:  Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986. Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1992. Illustration:  Image on file Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS CA000020   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA000020 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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