Gerhardt Class sculpture
This sculpture sits on a small, raised plaza at 1201 West Pender Street, Vancouver,
at the intersection of Pender and Bute. Apparently it was originally a fountain,
accompanied by a wall mounted fountain on the adjacent face of the building. It
was installed in 1966. The sculpture is made of pre-constituted marble that was
cast in a plaster mould, then finished. I have to say that the sculpture has held
up very well for 55 years. The water for the fountain probably came out from the reveal at the
base of the sculpture. The conversion of the fountain's pool into a rather zen-like circular
Japanese garden (seven stones, but you can only see six at once) is attractive and successful
(a layer of raked sand would be interesting), and the entire plaza is a well maintained little oasis.
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