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The Fabric of San Pablo

The Fabric of San Pablo
Mural
A utility box painted as a blue mural featuring a tall white egret and a distant bridge. A small paper boat floats on the side of the box, which also features a dedication to the E.C.H. Academy.

Untitled Utility Box by Karina V., Ayesha S., and Dalu L.
Painting; Utility Box

Pomegranate Tree
Painting; Utility Box
A utility box mural painted with a serene marsh scene. It features a Great Egret standing among green reeds and cattails, while a mallard and a mother duck with ducklings swim in the water nearby.

Egret and Ducks
Painting; Utility Box

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  • A tall, bronze artwork titled "Ascending Dancers" by Robert Holmes. The sculpture features two slender, stylized figures with smooth, flowing lines, posed in a dynamic and joyful, ballet-like movement.
    Ascending Dancers
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    Ascending Dancers artwork by Robert Holmes (1927–2016) located in Orinda California at the Orinda Library Plaza. This was part of a public art installation coordinated by the Orinda Art in Public Places Committee. The piece was donated to the City...
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  • "Bronze Alligator” by Luciano Tempo. ARTSCCC photo.
    Bronze Alligator
    Artist: Luciano Tempo
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    Luciano Tempo was an Italian artist, antique dealer, collector, and designer. He often traveled far in search for eclectic pieces around the world and often mixed various design styles into his own pieces. Bronze Alligator by Luciano Tempo. Source:...
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  • metal sculpture shaped like an open book
    Bronze Book Bench Garden Statue
    Category: Functional; Indoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Metal
    “Bronze Book Bench Garden Statue” part of the Randolph Rose Collection of Yonkers, New York. From Randolph Rose Collection website: “A lost-wax custom bronze book bench featuring four books stacked together with the fourth book open as a seat,...
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  • A bronze bust sculpture of a smiling man with textured hair and a collared shirt, mounted on a pedestal with commemorative plaques. The sculpture captures a lifelike expression of the subject, Coach Jim Camitz.
    Coach “Smiley” Jim Camitz
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Metal
    The Coach ‘Smiley’ Jim Camitz bronze bust portrait showcases a local football coach. The artwork was dedicated by Mike Hernandez and the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 342. It’s located near the Pittsburg California Historical...
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  • A 7-foot-high bronze portrait statue of Don Salvio Pacheco, the founder of Concord, California. The figure is dressed in historical clothing, holding a rolled scroll in his left hand and resting his right on a pedestal with a Spanish relief. The statue stands outdoors on a granite base in a grassy park.
    Don Salvio Pacheco Monument
    Category: Memorial/Monument; Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Granite
    Paula Slater created the Don Salvio Pacheco Monument in 2018 as a commission from the Concord Historical Society in conjunction with the City of Concord, commemorating the city’s 150th anniversary. The work is a 7-foot-high over-life-size bronze...
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  • “Family” sculpture by Richard Ellis. It consists of a man on the left with a daughter a dog on the mother of the family and their son on the right side. ARTSCCC photo.
    Family
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    Richard Ellis made Family, a 9-foot tall, figurative bronze sculpture in 1982, making this one of the oldest public art works in Walnut Creek. The realistic figures make this a timeless piece that captures the warmth of a fleeting moment in...
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  • Five Bronze Critters
    Five Bronze Critters
    Date created: 2007
    Category: Garden; Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Metal
    The five bronze animals installed Veteran’s Park represent five animals indigenous to Brentwood: kit fox, raccoon, coyote, mallard duck and egret. The public art was created by Danville artist Willard Carmel and funded by a donation from Braddock...
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  • John Muir Statue and the surrounding area.
    John Muir Memorial Hospital Statue
    Category: Installation; Memorial/Monument; Water Feature/Fountain
    Medium(s): Bronze; Metal
    Northwest artist Phillip Levine (1931-2021) created bronze figurative sculptures for public and private spaces. His sculptures are realistic but with exaggerated or minimized elements such as long limbs. They often play with the elements of balance...
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  • A bronze statue of a boy and girl sitting on a metal bench reading a book. The children have a blue-green finish on their clothes and the girl is pointing at a page.
    Joseph A. Ovick Memorial Sculpture
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    The sculpture at the Contra Costa County Office of Education is a memorial to Joseph A. Ovick, in honor of his dedication, service, and leadership as the County Superintendent of Schools from 1996 to 2014. The artwork is a bronze sculpture of two...
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  • Lafayette War Memorial
    Lafayette War Memorial
    Date created: 2021
    Medium(s): Bronze; Stone
    The Lafayette War Memorial was created in 2021 as part of the Lafayette Veterans Memorial Center. The work is a stone monument with a bronze plaque that lists the names of fallen service members from Contra Costa County who died in defense of the...
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  • A bronze statue of a man with a bag scatters seeds in a park.
    Seed Sower
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    In 2012, Bill Weber created Seed Sower funded by the city of Brentwood Municipal Art Fund. The work is a bronze sculpture of a man wearing a hat and carrying a shoulder bag while walking. The piece is located at the entrance of City Park in...
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  • Speechless
    Speechless
    Date created: 2008
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    A giant wavering bronze stack of paper rises. Had one taken a page from every book in the library collection, stacking one on top of the other, a stack of paper equivalent in height to this sculpture would result. The towering sculpture bends and...
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  • A bronze sculpture shows a young girl with an old man reading a book.
    Swan Tales
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Metal
    Brian Keith created the Swan Tales bronze sculpture at Blackhawk Plaza in Danville, California. Source: www.briankeithfineart.com/#/swan-tales
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  • A bronze sculpture shows a young girl with pigtails holding reins as she rides on the back of a flying bird. The piece is set outdoors against a backdrop of trees and a shopping plaza.
    The Aviator
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Metal
    Brian Keith created The Aviator bronze sculpture at Blackhawk Plaza in Danville, California. Source: www.briankeithfineart.com/#/the-aviator
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  • A bronze sculpture by Frederic Remington titled The Broncho Buster depicting a cowboy wearing a wide-brimmed hat and chaps, expertly riding a powerful, wildly bucking horse. The sculpture is mounted on a rectangular marble base and sits on a wooden desk or table inside a well-lit room with bookshelves visible in the background.
    The Broncho Buster
    Category: Indoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art website: “The Broncho Buster, Remington’s first sculpture, and the first sculpture of a cowboy cast in bronze, was copyrighted in October 1895. He adapted the subject, a cowboy breaking in a rearing horse, from his...
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  • The Cannery Lady, A life size bronze statue of a woman, holding a tray of asparagus and tomatoes and empty cans at her feet.
    The Cannery Lady
    Category: Memorial/Monument; Political/Social
    Medium(s): Bronze
    Elizabeth MacQueen created The Cannery Lady in 1996. Its creation and restorations were funded by local patrons, city and county bodies, community groups, businesses, and families. The work is a life-size bronze statue, roughly nine feet tall, that...
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  • The Sentinel
    The Sentinel
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    In 1984, Kirk St. Maur created The Sentinel in downtown Point Richmond at Park Place in Washington Avenue. The work is a bronze figurative sculpture that serves as a memorial to the history of the area. Source:...
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  • A bronze statue of a steelworker stands on a large stone pedestal. A detailed bronze plaque on the base tells the history of the steel industry in Pittsburg, citing its role in building the San Francisco Bay Bridge and Hoover Dam.
    The Steelworker
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Stone
    In 1993, Frank Vitale created The Steelworker for the City of Pittsburg, California. The work is a bronze and stone sculpture of a steelworker. Source: https://www.pittsburgca.gov/our-city/art-about-town
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  • Transition
    Transition
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    A statue of two men standing facing each other. One, dressed in a business suit stands atop a building (representing the future), and holds a flame in his upraised proper right hand. The other man, wearing boots, jeans and a hat, stands atop a...
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  • Untitled (Fish Sculpture)
    Untitled (Fish Sculpture)
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze; Concrete; Metal; Stone
    The public artwork is a sculptural installation of fish forms and stone seating located in John Buckley Square in downtown Pittsburg. Source: https://www.pittsburgca.gov/our-city/art-about-town
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  • Urban Family, a bronze statue
    Urban Family
    Date created: 2016
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Bronze
    At first glance Archie Held’s bronze sculpture appears to be a cluster of graceful, undulating forms. But Held sees this piece as an abstraction of people, an Urban Family, as he named it. About his work, Held says: “To me it’s figurative, an...
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