The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Québec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain . The public artwork has been an iconic, if controversial, part of the landscape of San Francisco ’s Embarcadero Plaza since it was constructed in 1971.

However, last summer, San Francisco’s arts commission, which owns the work, was asked if would “deaccession” the sculpture in order to accommodate the city’s planned renovation of the plaza.

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