Clipper and Diamond Heights Blvd
Noe Valley/Twin Peaks
This piece titled Redwood Sculpture, was done in 1968 by Stefan Novak.
Mr. Novak and his family are very private people, so there is little information regarding the artist. He was an instructor in the architecture department at UC Berkeley. He was born on August 22, 1918 and died on April 29, 2006 at 87 years old.
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The piece is owned by the SFAC.
3871 24th Street Noe Valley These two murals sit on the two sides of a parking lot on 24th Street They are by Mona Caron who has been in this website many, many times. According to Caron’s website: The mural comprises two paintings that face each other over a small park and parking lot in the Noe Valley neighborhood. As a tie-in to the weekly farmer’s market that is held there, both murals feature giant botanical illustrations of vegetables and their leaves and blossoms. A scroll-like ribbon weaves around the vegetables. Wherever the ribbon is larger and appears closer, there Continue Reading
Douglass Playground 26th and Douglass Noe Valley This mosaic, done in 1987 by Lois Anderson, is on the side of the Douglass Playground Clubhouse. Tile, glass, metal, buttons, jewelry on fiberglass, and wood corresponds to the architectural details or emblems found on many neighborhood buildings. Her obituary, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 10, 2004 reads: “…a Marin artist known for her bejeweled assemblages, died of cancer at her Mill Valley home Sunday surrounded by friends. She was 77. Ms. Anderson was born in Milwaukee, Wis., and received her bachelor’s degree in 1949 from Wisconsin State University. In Continue Reading
295 Day Street Noe Valley SAN FRANCISCO WALL FLOWER “ERYSIMUM FRANCISCANUM” This installation is titled Noe Valley Natives, and these pieces sit on fence posts at the Upper Noe Valley Rec Center. The artist is Troy Corliss. In 1993 Troy graduated from the studio art program at the University of California at Davis. While at UC Davis, he studied figure drawing and sculpture. Today, he lives with his wife Anne Liston in Truckee, CA. Corliss has been artist in residence at the Center for Land-Based Learning in Winters, California, the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, and the John Muir Institute of the Environment at Continue Reading
Castro District Noe and 19th Street This is a Precita Eyes Mural. It was done in 2008 and is titled “A Celebration of Love”
Noe Valley/Castro Corner of Church and 22nd Streets Botanical Mural by Mona Caron This mural is immense. It is impossible to capture it in one photo and have any idea of what is being portrayed, so I have chosen to shoot it and show it to you in sections. Mona Caron has shown up several times in this website. This mural features greatly magnified botanical illustrations of locally occurring, small wild plants, both native species and non-native, invasive weeds. This is a real eye catcher, the massive scale of the plants and insects is just spectacular. The mural was painted in Continue Reading
Noe Valley Eureka Valley Market Street Railway by Mona Caron 300 Church Street near 15th 38′ X 12′ This is Mona Caron’s own description of this wonderful mural. The Market Street Railway mural shows a 180-degree bird’s-eye view of San Francisco’s Market Street through time. The connecting theme of the mural is the historic Market Street Railway: streetcars from the 1920’s are shown traveling the whole length of the mural, passing through different eras and historic events, from their heyday in the 1920’s, through many changes in the traffic composition of Market Street over the years, into the present, and Continue Reading