Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A San Francisco man doing landscaping work in his yard unearthed a 150-pound stone statue that might have ties to a famous local artist.
Greg Gatwood said he was working in his yard in the Russian Hill neighborhood when he came across a stone slab buried under the grass.
"I was doing a little grading and I came across what I thought was a piece of concrete, rectangular, and I thought, I'll just pop it out and throw it to the side," Gatwood told KTVU-TV.
Gatwood dug out the heavy slab and turned it over, revealing a sculpture with an intricately detailed face carved into the stone.
Judy Gittelsohn, an artist and Gatwood's partner, consulted with other artists and began to suspect the 2-foot-wide sculpture might be the work of Ralph Stackpole, a prominent San Francisco artist who died in 1973.
