- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Work Relief Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Artist:
- Sargent Johnson
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
African American sculptor Sargent Johnson created a 30 x 14 foot frieze of incised green slate on the exterior of the entrance to the visitor’s center of the National Maritime Historical Park in San Francisco, California.
The work, “Sea Form Marquee,” was completed in 1939 and paid for by the Federal Art Project (FAP).
Johnson also created a 3′ x 5′ ceramic lintel bas relief on the
The building was built as the bathhouse of the San Francisco Aquatic Park, built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936-39.
Source notes
Site originally submitted by Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry on July 21, 2013.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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