Sydney Walton Square

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Sydney Walton Square is a public park located just west of the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California, United States. The park is named after San Francisco banker Sydney Grant Walton.^[1]^[2]

Embarcadero (San Francisco) thoroughfare in San Francisco, United States

The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. It was constructed on reclaimed land along a three mile long engineered seawall, from which piers extend into the bay. It derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar, meaning "to embark"; embarcadero itself means "the place to embark". The Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 2002.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a city in, and the cultural, commercial, and financial center of, Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th-most populous city in the United States, and the fourth-most populous in California, with 883,305 residents as of 2018. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km²), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second-most densely populated large US city, and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is also part of the fifth-most populous primary statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.

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The 2-acre park was designed by Peter Walker. It was created as part of the city of San Francisco's partnership with Golden Gateway Center to bring more public art to the area. The park consists of public artwork by Jim Dine ( Big Heart on the Rock ), Marisol Escobar ( Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe ), George Rickey ( Two Open Rectangles ), Joan Brown ( Pine Tree Obelisk ), Benny Bufano ( The Penguins ), and Francois Stahly ( Fountain of Four Seasons ). An old arch from the Colombo Market also resides in the park. It is the only remaining structure from San Francisco's historical produce district.^[1]^[2]

Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration. Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.

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References

1 2 Todd, Gail (18 September 2008). "Sydney G. Walton Square sculpture stroll". SF Gate. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
1 2 Luthi, Jessica (21 March 2009). "The Polaroid Chronicles, Part Four". The Guardsman. Retrieved 12 May 2012.

Coordinates: 37°47′51″N122°23′56″W / 37.79751°N 122.39902°W / 37.79751; -122.39902

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[todd-1] 1 2 Todd, Gail (18 September 2008). "Sydney G. Walton Square sculpture stroll". SF Gate. Retrieved 12 May 2012.

[Luthi-2] 1 2 Luthi, Jessica (21 March 2009). "The Polaroid Chronicles, Part Four". The Guardsman. Retrieved 12 May 2012.