Presently in storage at Golden Gate Park
This statue is from the Golden Gate International Exposition. It is by Cecilia Bancroft Graham.
Graham was born in San Francisco, on March 2, 1905. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts, graduated from Mills College in Oakland, and studied sculpture with Oscar Thiede in Vienna, Louis de Jean in Paris, and with Carl Milles at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. She passed away in Carmel, California in 1984.
Photo courtesy of Anne Schnoebelen of the Treasure Island Museum.
The statue was placed around the Fountain in the San Francisco Building. The center whales were by Robert Howards.
The whales sculpture was moved to a fountain in front of the Steinhart Aquarium, now the Academy of Science, in Golden Gate Park. They are no longer there.
The Dolphin is, sadly, badly damaged.
Thank you to the Landscape department of Golden Gate Park for aiding me in finding the statue.