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...object of all this controversy was the new fountain on San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza. A monumental structure of squared concrete tubes, cantilevering in all directions above a five-sided pool, it was designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, 38, who won the commission in a competition judged by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. To cap it all, on the eve of dedication day last week some vandal stenciled QUEBEC LIBRE in red paint on the fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War Whoop for Freedom | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...night before: black sweater and beard, dark hair hanging below his shoulders and a new can of red paint, with which he was vigorously stenciling another QUEBEC LIBRE on the fountain. He was not arrested. He was, as it turned out, none other than the artist himself, Armand Vaillancourt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War Whoop for Freedom | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

Bark Is Worse. In Auburn, Me., after being told by an angry motorcyclist that a dog had bitten his tire, Policeman Robert Vaillancourt investigated, pigeonholed the complaint when he discovered that the dog was toothless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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