16th and Mission
24th and Mission
Bart Stations
Mission District
These abstract, cast stone, pieces can be found in both the 16th and Mission and 24th and Mission BART stations.
The works are by William George Mitchell. Mitchell (born 1925) is an English sculptor, artist and designer. He is best known for his large scale concrete murals and public works of art from the 1960s and 1970s. His work is often of an abstract or stylised nature with its roots in the traditions of craft and “buildability”. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London.
After long years of neglect, many of William Mitchell’s remaining works in the United Kingdom are now being recognised for their artistic merit and contemporary historic value, and have been granted protective, listed status.
These pieces were some of the first art pieces to be placed in BART stations as part of the ART in BART program, and were installed sometime in the 1960’s.
