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Patigian spent most of his career in San Francisco, California and most of his works are located in California. The Oakland Museum in Oakland, California, includes a large number of his works in its collection.

Selected public works

• McKinley statue in Arcata, California, 1906
• General John Pershing, San Francisco, California, 1921
• Abraham Lincoln, San Francisco, California, 1928
• Thomas Starr King, National Statuary Hall Collection, The Capitol, Washington D.C.,
• Volunteer Firemen Memorial, San francisco, California, 1933

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Architectural sculpture

• M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, tympanum,
• San Francisco Savings Union Bank building, pediment, San Francisco, California, 1911
• Palace of Fine Art & the Machinery Palace, (now destroyed) Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, (now the Ritz Carlton Hotel) pediment, San Francisco, California, 1920
• Navigation, Aviation, and Industry, Richfield Oil Building, Los Angles, California Allegorical figures, 1928

when the building was demolished in 1968 the figures were moved to in front of the Student Health Services Building at the University of California in Santa Barbara

• Department of Commerce Building, pediment, Washington D.C., 1934

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References

• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
• National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture 1929, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY 1929
• Opitz, Glenn B , Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
• Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968