After visiting Oslo’s Vigeland Park this summer, Europe’s largest sculpture park devoted to a single artist, I wanted to sketch some of the free public sculptures within my home turf.

One of perhaps the most famous and well recognized sculptures in the world is to be found in San Francisco’s Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. This in Rodin’s The Thinker.

I didn’t want to sketch the statue from the front of even the side but from behind, including the many admirers that come to photograph the masterpiece, often mimicking the famous pose.

The sculpture is in the courtyard of the museum with no admission necessary to take a selfie. So this sculpture meets my criteria of free public art.

While The Thinker is close to my home I wanted to find some public art close to my work in San Mateo.

It turns out that one stop down Highway 92 there is a piece in a business park titled “Untitled”(2016) by T. Olle Lundberg.

This piece of Corten steel and concrete has been given the name “Falling Slabs” because this is exactly what it looks like. Heavy steel plates falling like dominos.