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Summary

Description
English: Peace by Benny Bufano — at Parkmerced, San Francisco, California.
Medium

Sculpture: granite, tile, stainless steel; Base: concrete.

Dimensions

Sculpture: approx. H. 26 1/2 ft. x Diam. 10 ft.

Inscription
  • On lower portion of sculpture: PEACE/BY/Beniamino Bufano
  • On lowest granite base: Presented to the Citizens of San Francisco by the San Francisco Chronicle/Dedicated to the Brotherhood of Man and the Ideal of Peace Among all the Peoples of the World
  • On back of lower granite base: Dedicated April 19, 1958/George Christopher, Mayor (unsigned)
Description
Abstract bullet-shaped female figure. The figure's face is carved in relief from black granite. The front of the figure's gown is covered with a ceramic tile mosaic. The mosaic depicts a full-length child with four eyes wearing a long white gown. The child's palms are turned out. The stainless steel sculpture stands on a circular black granite base which in turn rests on a round Sierra white granite base.
Date
Source http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!341912~!0#focus
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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