San Francisco Fountain

Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain
Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain in 2010
Artist	Ruth Asawa
Year	1970 (1970)
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Bronze
Dimensions	2.3 m (90 in); 4.9 m diameter (193 in)
Condition	"Treatment needed" (1992)
Location	San Francisco, California, United States

Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain, or sometimes simply San Francisco Fountain, is a 1970 bronze sculpture and fountain by Ruth Asawa, located outside the Grand Hyatt San Francisco in downtown San Francisco, California, in the United States. The cylinder-shaped sculpture, which serves as the outer wall of the fountain basin, features bas-relief scenes of San Francisco, "whimsically interrelated". It measures approximately 90 inches (2.3 m) tall, with a diameter of 193 inches (4.9 m), and is set into a base of brick stairs. Albert Lanier served as the architect; credited assistants include Aiko Asawa, Haru Awara, Mae Lee, Mei Mei, Hector Villanueva, and Sally Woodbridge.

The work was surveyed and labeled "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's Save Outdoor Sculpture! program in September 1992.

In May 2016, Apple completed construction of a new flagship store on the northwest corner of Post & Stockton Streets. The project included renovating the public space located between the new store and a hotel on the southwest corner of Sutter & Stockton Streets. The renovated public open space now includes wooden tables, chairs, planters with trees, a “living wall”, a new mutil-color “LOVE” sculpture and Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain. Some restoration and preservation work on the fountain appears to have been done as part of the project.

See also

• History of fountains in the United States
• Sculpture of the United States