Summer Guide: Tour de Fountains

Europe is filled with damp war heroes and Renaissance seraphim, pennies clogging their drains. Here in Seattle, our mercantile founders built sawmills, not frivolous displays of public art. And yet the fountain fetish took hold, especially during our booming postwar years. Here's a quick tour, as detailed in this week's story.

West on the waterfront are the two jet-encircled figures of Louise Bourgeois' Father and Son, installed by SAM at the Olympic Sculpture Park in 2002 and voted the city's ugliest statue in an informal SW poll two summers back.

Below the new (2005) lid of Cal Anderson Park lies the old Lincoln Reservoir. Today, a volcano-like peak gurgles gently into a sluiceway and wider basin, designed by San Francisco artist Doug Hollis.

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Published on June 6, 2012