Sphinx in Golden Gate Park

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2018-09-09
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Pair of Sphinxes, ca. 1910 Arthur Putnam (1873-1930) These sphinxes replaced the original commissioned for the entrance to the Fine Arts Building of the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. The building's Egyptian Rivival architecture reflected a fascination with ancient Egypt inspired by archeological discoveries sucha as the 1858 excavation of the Great Sphinx at Giza.