Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: fountain

The Music Concourse, a landscaped basin between the California Academy of Sciences and the de Young Museum, is a vital civic and cultural space within Golden Gate Park, hosting free concerts on Sundays during the summer and serving as a respite and picnic spot year-round for visitors to nearby cultural facilities. At its centre is a fountain, dedicated in 1924, made possible with a $10,000 gift from Corrine Rideout. The statue in the fountain’s centre depicts the unlikely scene of a saber-toothed tiger wrestling a serpant. Corrine Rideout was the widow of banker Norman Rideout. Mr. Rideout came from Maine to Oroville, California and opened a bank. He successfully opened five more in the central valley of California. After his death in 1907 his widow sold them to A.P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy later to become the Bank of America. The cast stone pool was designed by architect Herbert A. Schmidt. The statue is by M. Earl Cummings. The original intention was for the statue to be of bronze, but the budget did not allow for this.

Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (1842-1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist. She was the mother of the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. In the 1880s, she became a major benefactor and director of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association and the first president of the Century Club of California. She was a major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley and its first woman Regent, serving on the board from 1897 until her death. Also in 1897, she contributed to the establishment of the National Congress of Mothers, which evolved eventually into the National Parent-Teacher Association. In 1900, she co-founded the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC. A public elementary school near the National Cathedral School bears her name. In 1901, Phoebe Hearst founded the University of California Lowie Museum of Anthropology, renamed Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in 1992, in celebration of the museum’s ninth decade. The original collection was founded with about 230,000 objects representing cultures and civilizations throughout history. Hearst was raised a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian faith. In 1898 she converted to the Bahá’í Faith, and helped play a key role in the spread of the religion in the United States. This This cast stone fountain, a tribute her memory, stands on the south side of the music concourse in front of the California Academy of Sciences. The photograph shows the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in the background.

Standing at the corner of Market, Geary and Kearny streets in San Francisco, Lotta’s Fountain is a twenty-four-foot cast iron sculpture, painted bronze and adorned with lion’s heads, griffins, and other ornaments. It was commissioned by Lotta Crabtree, a Vaudeville actress, entertainer and comedian, as a gift to the city of San Franscisco. Lotta loved the city and had gotten her start there during the Gold Rush days, when she would dance on barrels in saloons for miners who would throw gold nuggets at her feet. Said to posses "the most beautiful ankle in the world," she was famous for her red hair, dark eyes, and her dances. She was especially known for the "Spider Dance, involving bodily gyrations intended to indicate shaking off of imaginary spiders and entangling spider webs." In the 1880s, she the highest paid actress in America, earning sums of up to $5,000 per week. The cast iron fountain was dedicated on September 9, 1875. Lotta’s Fountain served as a meeting point during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fires, which is commemorated by a metal panel attached to the monument. Another panel, installed in 1911, mentions legendary opera soprano Luisa Tetrazzini, who sang for the people of San Francisco at the fountain on Christmas Eve, 1910. The bronze column was added in 1916 to equal the height of new lights being installed along Market Street. Commemorations of the earthquake, including a dwindling pool of survivors, are held every year at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 at the intersection. It was relocated from its original location at 3rd, Market and Kearny in 1974 during the renovation of Market Street. In 1999, the fountain, which had suffered neglect in the previous decades, was totally refurbished to its 1875 appearance. It is painted with a metallic gold-brown paint. The lion's head-motif fountain stations located on the sides of the column flow during daytime hours.

A vibrant and colourful fountain in front of the Hotel Triton on Grant Avenue in San Francisco. The water comes out of the turquoise bust.

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À la claire fontaine, M’en allant promener; J’ai trouvé l’eau si belle Que je m’y suis baigné. Il y’a longtemps que je t’aime Jamais je ne t’oublierai. At the clear fountain, While I was strolling by; I found the water so lovely That I went in to bathe. I've loved you for so long, Never will I forget you.

“The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.” - William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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