St. Francis De Assisi Patron Saint of San Francisco
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This heroic statue of the patron saint of San Francisco was carved in Paris in 1926-28 out of a 20-ton block of granite. It rested unseen in a warehouse there for 27 years, and was transported to San Francisco in 1955 by friends of the sculptor. The magnificent work, called by one critic the most significant piece of art in 500 years, rested temporarily in three different locations in the Bay Area until 1963, when the San Francisco Bay Area Longshoremen's Memorial Association offered it a permanent haven with a special park and fountain to surround it on the grounds of its architecturally unique building near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. From the Darlene Thorne Collection |
