“No sculptor has had as many works placed, portraits, monuments and plaques, in and...
Haig Patigian in 1927 with his newly created bust of tennis star Helen Wills Moody. The bust now belongs to de Young Museum.
From the Filbert Steps you can still see the studio model of Haig Patigian’s “Creation,” which was displayed at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island.Before all that, Patigian was born in 1876 in Van, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey with strong ties to ancient Armenia. His father, Avedis, was credited with introducing photography to Armenia as a university professor before facing persecution for his work.
While Patigian hadn’t studied sculpture, he had read books on human anatomy — his lifelike presentations of male and female bodies earned him acclaim for “Unquiet Soul” and many works to come.Just eight months after that artistic breakthrough, Patigian got his first financial one. According to Millard’s book, when a businessman came to San Francisco offering a commission for a statue of former President William McKinley, he was referred to Patigian.
In reality, all of San Francisco was now Patigian’s studio, with demand for public sculptures and monuments booming. A 1997 book on Bohemian Club art history said the club helped give Patigian a bounty of connections that led to work.“Busily productive over the next 25 years, Patigian virtually turned the City of San Francisco into a Haig Patigian sculpture garden,” wrote Kevin Starr in “
The concrete and steel shrine was very much manmade as a project between Patigian and architect Herbert A. Schmidt. Patigian formed the owl’s head and the adjacent rocks himself. The closest thing to a recent description of the formation now comes in “The Visual Arts in Bohemia”: “Although once a pristine concrete group of objects, the Owl Shrine is now moss- and fern-covered and is so well scaled and placed that many guests and new members believe it is real stone.
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