Waterfront Park
Waterfront promenade of restored bronze fountains and public art tracing two very different homecomings.
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This guide to Waterfront Park in Seattle follows sculptor George Tsutakawa, whose bronze fountains stand in cities worldwide, including the one he built here in nineteen sixty-six for Colman Dock that came down when the ferry terminal needed rebuilding and sat crated for years. It also follows a nearby Christopher Columbus statue, given by Seattle's Italian American community in nineteen seventy-eight, and the protests and vandalism that dogged it for decades. Notice how differently the city treated two artworks removed from the same waterfront within a few years of each other.
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