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Index by
Location
of New York City sculptures
discussed on this site
(roughly in order South to North and West to East)
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Click
here for a list of self-guided walking tours available on this site.
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NOTE: The list
below includes only representational sculpture, much of which is discussed
on this site, on the Forgotten Delights blog, or in
Outdoor Monuments of
Manhattan: A Historical Guide. All the freestanding sculptures
are included, and many architectural sculptures as well. When no
reference to OMOM or essays on this site is given, the information is
usually from The Art Commission and the
Municipal Art Society Guide to Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture, by
Margot Gayle and Michele Cohen (Prentice Hall, 1988).
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If you are looking for an image
of a specific person, event, object or artwork (Richard Morris Hunt,
Czechoslovakia, penguin, Indian Hunter), use the Find command. "Index terms"
includes any useful words that do not already appear in the artist,
title, location, or bibliographical references.
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Click
here to see a Google map showing locations of all the sculptures in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
The other sculptures below will be added to the Google map soon.
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Copyright
issues (the fine print)
Please respect the efforts of
sculptors, photographers and owners by not reproducing their
works
without permission, when permission is required.
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Artist:
publication of photographs (in print, on the Internet, or by other
means) of sculpture that is still under copyright requires the
permission of the artist. It doesn't matter if the work is on public
property. Works created before1923 and not substantially modified later
are in the public domain, free of artists' copyrights. Many post-1923
works are also in the public domain, but check the
Stanford and
University of North Carolina summaries of public domain for
specifics. If a work is or might be under copyright, be prepared to
demonstrate that you have been diligent in attempting to reach an artist
or his heirs via searches of the Net, queries to the
National
Sculpture Society or the
National Academy of Design, contact with galleries that carry his
work, etc.
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Photographer:
If you did not take a post-1923 photo yourself, you must also request the
photographer's permission to use his image. All the photos below were
taken by Dianne Durante. For permission to publish them, email dldurante[at]earthlink.net.
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Owner:
As far as I can tell, the New York City government does not care if you
publish works that it owns and displays on public property. If you take
a photo of an object in an institution such as the Metropolitan Museum,
however, you must request permission before publishing it. Think about
it: they house the item, keep it in good condition, protect it from
thieves, and make it accessible to you. If they want to allow it to be
published only with their permission, they have the right.
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Manhattan
Below Canal Street
Between Canal Street & Union Square North (17th St.)
From Union Square North (17th
Street) to 59th Street
(Central Park South)
West of Central Park (59th to 110th
Sts.) - CENTRAL PARK -
East of Central Park (59th to 110th
Sts.)
From 59th Street to 110th Street
(including Central Park)
North of 110th Street
Brooklyn
MANHATTAN
(roughly in geographical order, south to north)
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Statue of Liberty, by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi,
pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt, 1886
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Liberty Island, New York Harbor
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Essay 1 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
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Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Liberty
Enlightening the World, Neoclassical, Declaration of
Independence, shackles, Gustave Eiffel, Edouard-Rene
Lefebvre de Laboulaye, Franco-American alliance, French,
France, immigration, Emma Lazarus, New Colossus
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Dewey Memorial, with reproductions of medallions by
Daniel Chester French, 1898; reproduced for this memorial, 1973
- Battery Park, Promenade across from Gangway #5 (the
Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island Ferry boarding ramp).
- Discussed in the
Battery Park podcast
- Index terms: Spanish-American War, Dewey Arch, sailor,
Admiral George Dewey
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American Merchant Mariner's Memorial, by Marisol Escobar,
1991
- Pier A, southwest end of Battery Park, in the water.
- Discussed in the
Battery Park podcast
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: war memorial
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Korean War Memorial, by Mac Adams, 1991
- Battery Park, west side
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: infantry, rifle, flags
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John
Ericsson, by Jonathan Scott Hartley,
1903
- Location: Battery Park, north of the
Eisenhower Mall, between Castle Clinton and Battery Place.
- See Essay 2 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Also discussed in
detail in
Forgotten Delights: The Producers (to read that
excerpt in PDF format,
click here) and in the
Battery Park podcast.
- Index terms: USS Monitor, CSS
Virginia, USS Merrimac, Civil War, naval, USS Princeton,
Battle of the Ironclads, 19th-c. firefighting equipment
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East
Coast Memorial, by Albino Manca, 1961
- Battery Park at the water, near where the ferry
for the Statue of Liberty departs.
- Listed in the walking tour of animal sculptures.
Discussed in the
Battery Park podcast.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: World War II, Second World War,
naval, eagle, wreath, memorial
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Wireless Operators Monument, 1915
- Battery Park near the East Coast Memorial. As of early
2008, in storage during subway renovation.
- Click here to read about its
connection with
the Titanic.
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Coast Guard Memorial, by Norman M. Thomas, 1947
- Battery Park (in storage until 2008 or 2009, during subway renovation)
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: Coast Guard, World War 2, wounded soldier
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Giovanni da Verrazzano, by Ettore Ximenes, 1909
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John Wolfe Ambrose, by Andrew O'Connor, Jr., ca. 1899
- Battery Park, south wall of the Concession Building,
tucked away in the corner of the American Cafe's patio.
Note: the bronze bust has been missing for years; only the granite frame
inscribed with a map of the Ambrose Channel remains.
- Index terms: Ambrose Lightship, Ambrose Channel, navigation, New York
Harbor map, engineer
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The Immigrants, by Luis Sanguino, 1983
- Battery Park, just north of Castle
Clinton and southeast of Ericsson.
- Discussed in detail in Forgotten Delights: The Producers.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: immigration, African-American,
Jewish, mother and child, luggage, baggage
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Ape & Cat (At the Dance), by Jim Dine,
1990s?
- Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Park (near Battery Park).
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: animals
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Four Continents, by Daniel Chester French;
allegorical figures of maritime nations by various artists (see
below); all 1907
- In front of the United States Customs House, facing
Bowling Green; figures of maritime nations on the cornice
- Essay 4 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with
East Coast
Memorial. Listed in the walking tour
of animal sculptures.
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Notecard
with detail of the figure of America
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Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Asia,
Africa, Europe, America, snake, tiger, animal, lion,
Egyptian monuments, sphinx, solar disk, Horus, aegis,
Parthenon reliefs, eagle, wheel of progress, Native
American, Greece, Rome, Frank Edwin Elwell, Phoenicia,
Frederick Ruckstull, Genoa, Augustus Lukeman, Venice, Spain,
Mary Lawence Tonetti, Holland, Portugal, Louis Saint
Gaudens, Denmark, Johannes Gelert, Belgium, Albert Jaegers,
France, England, Charles Grafly, Germany, Karl Bitter,
eagle, Peace, Strength, Cass Gilbert
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Seals of the U.S., New York State, New York City and the Triborough
Bridge and Tunnel Authority, by Paul Manship, 1956
- Originally on the Coliseum at Columbus
Circle, now on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Building on Battery Place,
near Bowling Green.
- See "The
Case of the Ponderously Peripatetic Sculptures"
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
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Index terms: coats of arms, New York State,
New York City, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority,
ships, Phrygian cap, Liberty, Justice with balance,
Triborough Bridge, windmill, beaver, Dutch, Native American
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Charging Bull,
by Arthuro Di Modica, 1989
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Peace, Truth, Honesty, Fortitude, Self-Denial, Fidelity,
by John Massey Rhind, 1895
- Second-floor level of the original American Surety
Building, 100 Broadway, just north of Wall. The ground floor
is presently occupied by Borders Books.
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical
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Abraham de Peyster, by Geroge Edwin Bissell, 1986
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Hanover Square (William St.
between Pearl and Stone Sts.)
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Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures from American History to 1800.
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Index terms: New Amsterdam, New Netherlands,
New York City mayor, wig
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John Watts, by George Edwin Bissell, 1890
- Trinity Church graveyard, facing Broadway
- Index terms: wig, lawyer? Judge?
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Integrity Protecting the
Works of Man. by John Quincy Adams Ward, architect George P. Post,
1903
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New York Stock Exchange pediment, Broad
Street between Wall and Exchange
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Index terms: wealth, business, agriculture,
mining, electricity, surveyors, builders, mechanical arts
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George Washington,
by John Quincy Adams Ward, pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt, 1883
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Double Check, by J. Seward Johnson, 1982; replaced
2007
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Liberty Plaza, just east of the World
Trade Center site.
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Discussed in detail in
Forgotten Delights: The Producers.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: businessman, briefcase,
calculator
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Dreaming of Far Away Places: The Ships Come to
Washington Market, by Donna Dennis, 1988
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Fence of Public School 234, at 300 Greenwich Ave.,
just south of Chambers St.
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Discussed in detail in
Forgotten Delights: The Producers.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: steamboat, clipper ship,
tugboat, Staten Island Ferry, tanker, schooner
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Relief honoring firemen's actions on 9-11, by ??? (could not find
signature on relief), ca. 2005
- East side of Greenwich St. at ??? [seen and photographed, but
location not noted]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: firefighters, September 11 2001, World Trade Center,
Twin Towers
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Four
Periods of Publicity, by Gutzon Borglum and his wife,
Estelle Kohn, 1906
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Garrison Building, 20 Vesey St., 9th floor
cornice.
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Index terms: speaking man, monk with
manuscript, newspaper, media, editor, early printing press,
printers' devices, Aldus Manutius
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Caryatids, by John Massey Rhind, 1899
- Park Row Building, 15 Park Row (between Ann and Beeckman
Streets).
- Index terms: Greek mythology, Greek architecture
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Justice,
sculptor unknown, 1887
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Cupola of City Hall.
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Index terms: law, legal, scales, balance,
Neoclassical
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Nathan Hale,
by Frederick MacMonnies, pedestal by Stanford White, 1890
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Horace
Greeley, by John Quincy Adams Ward, pedestal by Richard Morris
Hunt, 1890
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City Hall Park, northeast of City Hall.
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Essay 7 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
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Index terms: New York Tribune, journalist,
editor, newspaper, media, Civil War
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Benjamin Franklin,
by Ernst Plassmann, ca. 1872
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East side of Park Row at Nassau St., in
front of Pace University, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge entrance
ramp.
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Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures
from American History to 1800.
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Index terms: American Revolution,
Revolutionary War, printer, publisher, newspaper, editor,
media, Pennsylvania Gazette
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Surrogate's Court, sculptures by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke
Bush-Brown, 1903 -1908
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Originally the Hall of Records, 31 Chambers St. at
Centre.
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See also the walking tour
Figures
from American History to 1800.
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Index terms: New York in Its Infancy, New
York in Revolutionary Times, American Revolution, French
Revolution, allegory, allegorical, British soldier, Native
American, Pilgrim, Puritan. on the 5th-floor cornice, mayors
and other New York City officials by Martiny: David
Pietersen De Vries, Caleb Heathcote, De Witt Clinton, Abram
Stevens Hewitt, Philip Hone,
Peter Stuyvesant, Cadwallader David Colden, James Duane.
Centre Street facade cornice, by Martiny: allegorical
figures of Chemistry, Medicine, Industry, Commerce,
Navigation, Industrial Art, Music, Architecture. Reade
Street cornice, by Martiny: allegorical figures of Justice,
Electricity, Printing, Force, Tradition, Iron Age, Painting,
Sculpture. Chambers Street roof, by Bush-Brown: allegorical
figures of Childhood (flanking attic window), the seasons
(Spring, Summer, Winter, Autumn, as caryatids), Philosophy,
Poetry, Maternity & Heritage. Reade Street facade by
Bush-Brown, around central attic window: Instruction, Study,
Law, History. Elk Street facade, by Bush-Brown (around
central
window on attic roof): Industry, Commerce
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Justice, by Joseph Kiselewski, 1960; and Law, by William
Zorach, ca. 1959
- Reliefs on the Civil and Municipal Court Building, 111 Centre St.
[location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: snake, mother and child, family
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Pediment and roof sculptures on the New York County Courthouse, by
Frederick Warren Allen, ca. 1924
- 60 Centre St. at Foley Square (Thomas Paine Square), between Pearl
and Worth Sts.
- Law, Truth, Equity, Justice, Courage, Wisdom, evil, good, Guardians
of the Records, allegory, allegorical
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Authority and Justice, by Philip Martiny, 1906
- Flanking entrance to New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre St.
- Fasces, allegory, allegorical
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Civic Fame, by Adolph Weinman, 1914
- Gilt figure atop the Municipal Building, Centre and Chambers Sts.
- allegory, allegorical, laurel branch, crown symbolizing unified
boroughs of New York City
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Confucius, by Liu Shih, ca. 1977
- Bowery and Division Sts.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- China, Chinese, philosopher
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Lin Ze Xu, by ???, 1999
- East Broadway at Chatham Square
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: drug trade, China, opium
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Between Canal
Street and
Union Square North (17th Street)
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Gov. Alfred E. Smith, by
Charles Keck; Flagpole by Paul Manship, both 1946
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Catherine & Cherry Sts.
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The flagpole is
also listed in
the walking tour of animal sculptures.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: Sidewalks of New York, bear,
deer, owl, beaver
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Buffalo Hunt, by Charles Cary Rumsey, 1916; Spirit of Commerce
and Spirit of Industry, by Carl A. Heber, ca. 1914.
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On the arch of the Manhattan Bridge, west
end of Canal St.
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Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
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Index terms: Hermes or Mercury, Greek
mythology, trophy, fasces, lion, eagle, Native Americans
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Bowery Savings Bank pedimental sculptures, by Frederick MacMonnies, 1894
- 130 Bowery, north of Grand St.
- Index terms: lions, hammer, industry?
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Juan Pablo Duarte, by Nicola Arrighini, 1978
- Duarte Plaza, Avenue of the Americas at Canal St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
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La Guardia, by Jo Davidson, 1934
- Central mall of the La Guardia Houses, near Madison St. (between
Clinton and Jefferson Sts.).
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: New York City mayor, Robert Moses
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Puck, by
Henry Baerer, 1885. Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St. at Houston.
- On the Puck
Building, 295 Lafayette St. at Houston; one Puck appears on the west
facade, a slightly different one on the northeast corner.
- Index terms: Puck, Oh What Fool's These Mortals Be
(inscription on Puck's book)
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, by Yuri Gerasimov, installed on
present site 1989
- Roof of the Red Square apartment complex, 250 East Houston
St. between Avenues A and B
- Index terms: Russian, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
Communism, Socialism
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General Philip Henry Sheridan,
by Joseph P. Pollia, 1936
- Christopher St. Park, adjoining Sheridan Square, just east
of Seventh Ave. and north of West 4th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: Civil War, sword, Cedar Creek
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Gay Liberation Monument, by George Segal, 1992
- Christopher St. Park, at Seventh Ave. and West 4th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: gay and lesbian
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Fiorello La Guardia,
by Neil Estern, 1994
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LaGuardia Place near Bleecker.
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Essay 9 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: New York City mayor, Robert
Moses
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Jose Artigas, by Jose Luis Zorrilla de San Martin, 1949
- Avenue of the Americas at Dominick St., near Spring
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: Latin America, South America, Uruguay, Argentina
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Aspiration
and Inspiration, by Solon Borglum,
1920
- St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave. at East 10th St. [not
confirmed]
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Native Americans
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Little Lady of the Dew, by Solon Borglum,
1920?
- St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave. at East 10th St. [not
confirmed]
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical
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Petrus Stuyvesant, by Toon Dupuis, 1911
- St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave. at East 10th St.
- Index terms: New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, Dutch
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Abingdon Square Memorial, by Philip Martiny, ca. 1921
- Abingdon Square Park, intersection of Bleecker West 12th St., Eighth
Ave. and Hudson St.
- Index terms: World War I, doughboy, infantry, flag, war memorial
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Samuel Cox, by Louise Lawson, 1891
- Tompkins Square, northeast corner of 8th St. and Avenue A.
- Index terms: "Postman's Friend," United States Postal
Service
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Hebe, copy (1888?) of a sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen,
1834
- Tompkins Square Park at Ave. A, south of the 9th St.
transverse.
- Mentioned in the salute to
Puck, with a photo
- Index terms: water carrier, Greek mythology, allegorical
figure, Danish, temperance movement
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Slocum Memorial Fountain, by Bruno Louis Zimm, 1906
- Tompkins Square Park, north of 9th St. Traverse, behind the
brick restroom pavilion
- Index terms: steamboat, shipwreck, immigrants
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Alexander Lyman Holley, by John Quincy Adams Ward, pedestal by
Thomas Hastings, 1890
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Washington Arch, architect Stanford White (1895), Washington as
Commander in Chief by Hermon MacNeil (1916), Washington as President
by
Alexander Stirling Calder (1918), eagle
by Philip Martiny, Fame and War by Frederick MacMonnies
- North end of Washington Square at Fifth Ave.
- Essay 12 in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Listed in walking
tour flyer, Figures from American History to 1800.
- Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary War,
allegory, allegorical, Fame, Valor, Courage, Wisdom, Athena,
Justice, coats of arms of New York state, New York City, United
States and George Washington, United States president
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, by Giovanni Turini, ca. 1888
- Washington Square, east of the central
fountain
- Mentioned in Salutes to
Mazzini and
Bolivar.
- Index terms: Italian independence, immigration, sword, war
memorial
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Peter Cooper, by Augustus Saint Gaudens, pedestal by Stanford
White, 1894
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Metronome, Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, 1999
- South side of Union Square (14th St. at Broadway), above the Virgin
Megastore.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: clock, hand of Henry Kirke Brown's George
Washington at Union Square
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George Washington,
by Henry Kirke Brown, pedestal by Richard Upjohn, 1856
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South
end of Union Square, facing 14th St., between University Place and
Broadway
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Essay 13 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
Brief mention with
Independence Flagpole.
Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures from American History to 1800.
"Getting
More Enjoyment from Art You Love," The Objective Standard
(Summer 2006).
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Index terms: American Revolution,
Revolutionary War, Evacuation Day, British occupation of New
York, equestrian, horse, uniform, United States president
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Mohandas Gandhi,
by Kantilal B. Patel, 1986
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Southwest
corner of Union Square, near the corner of 14th Street and Union Square
West.
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Brief
mention with
Independence Flagpole.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: nonviolent protest, walking
stick, dhoti, politician, India
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Union Square Drinking Fountain,
also known as Charity, or the James Fountain, by Karl
Adolph Donndorf,
1881
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West side of
Union Square between 15th and 16th Sts.
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Brief mention with
Independence Flagpole.
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Index terms: temperance movement, mother
and children, Daniel Willis James. Pedestal: birds, fruit,
lizards, lions' heads
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Independence Flagpole
(Charles F. Murphy Memorial Flagpole), by Anthony de Francisci, 1926
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Center of Union Square.
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Cross-referenced in
Salute for July.
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Index terms: allegorical, allegory, Tammany
Society, Declaration of Independence, democracy, tyranny, coats
of arms of 13 original colonies of United States
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Marquis de
Lafayette,
by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, 1873
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Abraham Lincoln,
by Henry Kirke Brown, 1870
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Union Square War Memorial, Hunt Diedrich, ca. 1934
- Union Square, southeast triangle [location unconfirmed]
- Index terms:
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Washington Irving,
by Friedrich Beer, 1885
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In
front of Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Place at East 17th
Street.
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Brief mention with
Independence Flagpole and
George Washington
on Broad St.
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Index terms: American literature, writer,
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Rip Van Winkle,
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Peter
Stuyvesant,
by Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney, 1936
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Antonin Dvorak, by Ivan Mestrovic, 1963
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Northeast corner of Stuyvesant Square Park, near 17th
St. and Perlman Place (between 1st and 2nd Aves.).
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NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: composer, musician,
Czechoslovakian
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From Union Square North (17th
Street) to 59th Street
(Central Park South)
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Edwin Booth
as Hamlet, by Edmond T. Quinn, 1917
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Gramercy Park, accessible only to residents of
surrounding buildings; best seen from outside the fence at 20th
St. and Irving Place
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Essay 17 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan.
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Index terms: Shakespeare, actor, Players Club,
literature, drama
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Fantasy Fountain, by Greg Wyatt, 1983
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Gramercy Park, accessible only to residents of
surrounding buildings; best seen from outside the fence at the
southeast corner, between 20th and 21st Sts.
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Listed in the
walking tour
of animal sculptures.
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NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
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Index terms: sun, moon, giraffe
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William
Seward, by Randolph Rogers, 1876
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Madison Square Park, Fifth Ave. and 23rd St.
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Index terms: New York governor, United States
senator, Secretary of State, Alaska, Seward's Folly
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Roscoe Conkling,
by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1893
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Madison Square Park, near 23rd St. between
Fifth and Madison Aves.
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Essay 18 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Mentioned in salute to
Chester A. Arthur.
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Index terms: United States senator, Blizzard of
1888, Ulysses S. Grant, Republican
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General William Jenkins Worth Monument, by James Goodwin Batterson,
1857
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North end of the triangle
formed by Fifth Ave., Broadway and 24th St.
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See the Amazon Short "General
William Jenkins Worth Monument"
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Index terms: Mexican-American War, war memorial,
equestrian, horse, cast-iron fence with swords, coats of arms,
trophy of armor, obelisk
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Farragut
Monument (Admiral David
Glasgow Farragut), by Augustus Saint Gaudens, pedestal by Stanford
White, 1880
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Madison Square Park, between Fifth and Madison
Aves., near 26th St.
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Essay 19 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
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Notecard
with detail of Farragut
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Index terms: Civil War, naval, allegory,
allegorical figures, Loyalty, Courage, fish, crab, Battle of New
Orleans, Battle of Mobile Bay, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed
ahead!"
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Chester A. Arthur,
by George Edwin Bissell, 1898
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Madison Square Park, Fifth Ave.
near 26th St.
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Also mentioned in
Salute to Seward.
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Index terms: United States president, lawyer,
Republican, presidential seal
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Figures on the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, by various sculptors, 1896-1900
- Corner Madison Ave. and 25th St., with sculpture on south and west facades.
- Index terms: portico on 25th St by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull,
includes Wisdom and Force. 25th St windows within portico by Maximilian
M. Schwartzott: Morning, Night, Noon & Evening. 25th St pediment, by Charles Henry Niehaus,
includes the Triumph of Law with Law
surrounded by reclining Roman soldiers, and (at the corners) Father Time
and an unidentified youth. 25th St. roof balustrade:
series of single standing statues associated with law-giving: Zoroaster
(Persian) by Edward Clark Potter; Alfred the Great (Anglo-Saxon) by
Jonathan Scott Hartley; Lycurgus (Spartan) by George Edwin Bissell;
Solon (Athenian) by Herbert Adams; Justice flanked by Power and Study,
by Daniel Chester French; St Louis (French), by John Talbott
Donoghue; Manu (Indian) by Augustus Lukeman; Justinian (Roman)
by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. Madison Ave., above cornice of portico: 4
caryatids representing 4 seasons, & implying law's universality, by
Thomas Shields Clarke (Winter, Autumn, Summer, Spring. Madison Avenue roof
balustrade: Confucius (Chinese), by Philip Martiny; Peace (with a
dove), flanked by Strength and Abundance; Moses (Hebrew), by
William Couper
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Nursing Activities, by Ivan Mestrovic, ca. 1952
- Hunter College Nursing School Dormitory, East 26th St. at 1st Ave.
[location not confirmed]
- Index terms: medicine
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Chelsea Park Memorial, by Philip Martiny, 1920
-
Chelsea Park, at 28th St. and Ninth Ave.
-
Index terms: World War I, doughboy, infantry,
rifle
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Samuel Rea, by Adolph Weinman, 1930 (?)
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Eagles from the original Pennsylvania Station, by
Adolph Weinman, ca. 1910
-
Seventh Ave. at 32nd St. Another Penn Station
eagle has strayed to the courtyard behind the Starbucks at Astor
Place and Third Ave.
-
Listed in the
walking
tour of animal sculptures.
-
Index terms: bird, railroad
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Horace Greeley, by Alexander Doyle, 1892
- Near 32nd St., between Broadway and Sixth Ave.
- Compared with the John Quincy Ward statue of Greeley in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan, Essay 7.
-
Index terms: New York Tribune, journalist,
editor, newspaper, media, Civil War
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The Right Light, by J. Seward Johnson, ca. 1999
- South side of 34th St. between Lexington and Third Avenue, in front
of the Dumont Plaza Hotel
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: painter, artist, palette
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Bell
Ringers Monument (James Gordon Bennett Memorial), by Antonin Jean
Paul Carles, 1895
-
Herald Square,
intersection of Sixth Ave. and Broadway between 34th and 35th Sts., just
east of Macy's Herald Square.
-
Essay 21 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
New Year's greeting
-
Index terms: New York Herald, Athena or Minerva,
Stuff and Guff, Gog and Magog, Greek mythology
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Lionesses, by Edward Clark Potter (d. 1923)
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Garment Worker, by Judith Weller, 1984
-
Plaza in front of 555 Seventh Ave., between
39th and 40th Streets.
-
Brief mention with
William Cullen Bryant.
Discussed in detail in Forgotten
Delights: The Producers.
-
NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Garment District, Jewish
immigrants, immigration, sewing machine
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Golda Meir, by Beatrice Goldfine, 1980
-
Golda Meir Square near Broadway and 39th
St.
-
Brief mention with
William Cullen Bryant.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Israeli prime minister, Palestine
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Jackie
Gleason as Ralph Kramden, by Robert Du Grenier, 2000
-
Outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal,
8th Ave. and 40th St.
-
NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Honeymooners, television, TV Land,
blue collar worker, transportation
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Commuters, by George Segal, 1980
- South wing waiting room of the Port Authority Bus Terminal,
whose main entrance is at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: transportation
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, by Karl Fischer,
ca. 1832; this copy 1934
-
Bryant Park just north of 40th
St.
-
Brief mention with
William Cullen Bryant.
-
Index terms: German literature, author, poetry
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William Earl Dodge, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1885
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William
Cullen Bryant by Herbert Adams, architect Thomas Hastings, 1911
-
Bryant Park, directly behind (west of) the New York
Public Library, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 42nd and 41st
Streets.
-
Essay 22 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Index terms: American literature, author,
poetry, New York Evening Post, editor, media, newspaper
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Gertrude Stein, by Jo Davidson, 1992 (from original
of 1923)
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Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva, by Jose Otavia
Correia Lima, 1954
-
Bryant Park facing Sixth
Ave., between 41st and 42nd Streets.
-
Brief mention
with William Cullen
Bryant.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Brazil, politician, Latin America,
South America
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Juan Benito Juarez, by ???, ca. 2005
- Bryant Park, Avenue of the Americas between 41st and 42nd Sts.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: Mexico
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Wendell L. Willkie, by Paul Fjelde (?), 1957
-
Relief plaque on the 40th
St. (south) wall of the New York Public Library grounds, near Fifth Ave.
-
Brief mention with
William Cullen Bryant.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: politician, United States
presidential candidate
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Lions, by Edward Clark Potter, 1911
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History and
Romance, Religion, Poetry, Drama, and Philosophy, by Paul
Wayland Bartlett, 1914
- Attic storey of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave.
and 42nd St.
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical
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Truth and Beauty, by Frederick MacMonnies, 1920
|
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Arts and History, by George Gray Barnard, ca. 1913
- Pediments of the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave. and
42nd St.
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical, armor
|
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Flagpole bases, by Thomas Hastings, 1912
- Flanking the main entrance of the New York Public Library at
Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
|
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Cornelius Vanderbilt,
by Ernst Plassmann, 1869
|
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Glory of Commerce (also known as Hermes or
Mercury),
by Jules-Felix Coutan, 1914
-
Grand Central Terminal,
south facade.
-
Essay 26 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Hercules or
Heracles, Athena or Minerva, anchor, cogwheel, anvil, beehive,
technology, scroll, quill pen, globe, intellectual, eagle, New
York Central Railroad, industry, transportation
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Mary Pickford, Ethel Barrymore,
Marilyn Miller, Rosa Ponselle, by Alexander Stirling Calder, ca.
1927-1929
-
The
Miller Building, 1552 Broadway (at 46th St.),
-
Brief
mention of the Miller Building with
News.
-
Index terms: actors, actresses, theater, drama,
musical comedy, film, opera
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Father Francis P. Duffy.
by Charles Keck, 1937
-
Broadway and Seventh Ave. between 46th and 47th Sts.
-
Essay 27 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: World War I, Fighting Sixty-Ninth,
chaplain, priest
|
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George M. Cohan, by Georg John Lober, 1958
- Duffy Square, Broadway and Seventh Ave. at 46th St.
[in storage during renovation of the area, June 2007?]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: Broadway, musicals, playwright, actor, songwriter,
businessman
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Peace, by Antun Augustincic, 1954
- United Nations North Garden; enter at First Ave. and 46th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: horse, equestrian, Yugoslavian artist
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Let Us Beat Swords to Plowshares, by Evgeniy Vuchetich, 1958
- United Nations, north end of the Rose Garden, on the East River
Terrace.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: Russian or Soviet artist, Bible, Book of Isaiah, worker
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The Rising Man (Die Aufsteigende), by Fritz Cremer, 1975
- United Nations North Garden; enter at First Ave. and 46th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: German artist
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Padre Francisco de Vitoria, by Francisco Toledo, 1976
- United Nations North Garden; enter at First Ave. and 46th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: monk, Spain, Spanish, theologian, international law,
Mexican artist
|
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Taxi!, by J. Seward Johnson, 1983
-
Northwest corner of 47th St. and Park Ave.
-
Brief mention with
News. Discussed in detail in
Forgotten
Delights: The Producers.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: businessman, overcoat, briefcase
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Dag Hammarskjold, Carina Ari, ca. 1981
- 240 East 47th St., near Second Ave. [location not confirmed]
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Spirit of Achievement, by Nina Saemondsson, 1931
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For a list of Rockefeller Center reliefs, murals, mosaics, etc., see
The Art of Rockefeller Center, by Christine Roussel, in
hardcover or the abridged
paperback version. |
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Atlas, by Lee Lawrie, 1937
-
Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets.
-
Essay 29 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Greek mythology, armillary sphere,
Benito Mussolini
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News,
by Isamu Noguchi, 1940
-
Associated Press Building, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, between 50th and 51st
Streets.
-
Essay 30 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan.
-
NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: journalism, media, newspapers
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Prometheus, by Paul Manship, 1934
-
Rockefeller Center Skating Rink.
-
Essay
28 in Outdoor Monuments of
Manhattan. Brief
mention with News.
Separate salute to the
man and woman
flanking the stairs to the skating rink.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Greek mythology, fire
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Wisdom, flanked by Light and Sound,
by Lee Lawrie, 1933
-
30 Rockefeller Plaza. Brief mention with
News.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: allegorical, television, radio
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Italian Immigrants, by Giacomo Manzu, ca. 1965
-
On the wall on the north side of 50th St. in
Rockefeller Center.
-
Brief mention with
News.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Italy, mother and child
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Youth Leading Industry, by Attilio Piccirilli, ca. 1936
- Over the main entrance of International Building North at
Rockefeller Center, 636 Fifth Ave., between 50th and 51st Sts.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: chariot, glass mural
|
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Friendship of France and the United States, by Alfred Janniot, ca.
1934
- Over the entrance to La Maison Francaise, 610 Fifth Ave., between
49th and 50th Sts.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical, Poetry, Beauty, Elegance, New
York, Paris, Notre Dame, ship
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Industries of the British Commonwealth, by Carl
Paul Jennewein, 1933
-
Gilt reliefs on the doors of the British Empire Building at 620
Fifth Ave.
-
Brief mention with
News.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: Fisherman, sailor, coal miner;
woman carrying bag of salt, woman next to tobacco plant, man
holding stalks of sugarcane, India, agriculture; shepherd, wool,
Australia; reaper, wheat, Canada; cotton plants, Africa
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Fountainhead figures in Channel Gardens, by Rene Paul Chambellan, ca. 1935
- Rockefeller Center in the Channel Gardens, between La Maison
Francaise and the British Empire Building (48th-49th Sts.), just
west of Saks Fifth Avenue
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
- Index terms: marine, Triton, Nereids, Greek mythology, dolphin,
allegory, allegorical, Leadership, Will, Thought, Imagination,
Energy, Alertness
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Parthenon pedimental sculptures and metopes, full-scale
copies of originals of 5th c. B.C.
-
Olympic Towers Atrium, on the north side of 50th St.
(between Fifth & Madison Aves., opposite St. Patrick’s
Cathedral)
-
Brief
mention with News.
-
Index terms: horses, equestrian
|
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Flanders
Field Memorial, by Burt W. Johnson, 1929
-
DeWitt Clinton Park, Eleventh Ave. at 52nd St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues. (Due to
copyright issues, only a small image appears here.)
-
Index terms: World War I, John McRae, poppies,
rifle, doughboy, infantry
|
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Atlas Clock, by Henry Frederick Metzler, ca. 1853
- Fifth-Avenue facade of Tiffany's, at 57th St.
- Index terms: Greek mythology
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Construction Workers, by Elie Nadelman, 1930-1932
- Fuller Building, 41 East 57th St. (near Madison Ave.) [location not
confirmed]
- Index terms: blue-collar workers, industry, architecture
|
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Wild Boar, copy (before 1970) of a 1634 bronze by Pietro Tacca, which was inspired by an ancient work now in the Uffizi
Gallery
|
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Thomas Gainsborough and Festival Procession of the Arts, by
Isidore Konti, ca. 1910
- 222 West 59th St., east of Columbus Circle (recently cleaned and
quite spiffy, mid-2007)
- Index terms: British, art, painting, Neoclassical
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Columbus Monument, by Gaetano Russo, 1892
-
Columbus Circle, intersection of Eighth Avenue,
Central Park South and 59th Street.
-
Essay 35 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
Also discussed in detail in Forgotten
Delights: The Producers. Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures from American History to 1800.
-
Columbus Day greeting
-
Index terms: explorer of Americas, allegory,
allegorical, eagle, Genius of Discovery, Genius of Columbus,
Genius of Geography, coats of arms of Genoa and United States,
rostra, Native Americans, Caribbean, tiller
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Seals of the
United States, New York State, New York City and the Triborough Bridge and
Tunnel Authority by Paul Manship, 1956
-
Originally on the Coliseum at Columbus
Circle, now on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Building on Battery Place,
near Bowling Green.
- See "The
Case of the Ponderously Peripatetic Sculptures"
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: coats of arms, New York State,
New York City, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority,
ships, Phyrgian cap, Liberty, Justice with balance,
Triborough Bridge, windmill, beaver, Dutch, Native American
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Mother Playing, by Chaim Gross, 1961
- Fordham University / Lincoln Center, Columbus Ave. near 60th St.
[location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: mother and child
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Peter the Fisherman, by Frederick Shrady, 1965
- Fordham University / Lincoln Center, West 62nd St. [location not
confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: education, Matthew 4:18-20
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Dante Alighieri, by
Ettore Ximenes, 1912-1921
-
Dante Square, Broadway at West 64th St., near Lincoln Center.
-
Index terms: Italy, Italian, medieval,
Renaissance, Divine Comedy, literature, poetry
|
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Richard
Tucker, by Milton Hebald, 1979
-
Richard Tucker Park, Broadway at 66th St. and Columbus Ave., across from Lincoln
Center.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: opera singer, tenor, Metropolitan
Opera, music
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Eleanor Roosevelt, by Penelope Jencks, 1996
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Giuseppe
Verdi, by Pasquale Civiletti, 1906
-
West 73rd St. and Broadway
-
Essay
41 in Outdoor Monuments of
Manhattan.
-
Index terms: opera, Leonora, Forza del Destino,
Aida, Otello, Falstaff, Italy, Italian immigrants
|
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Theodore Roosevelt, by James Earle Fraser, 1940
-
Central Park West at 80th St. (in front of the
American Museum of Natural History).
-
Essay 42 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Native American, African,
equestrian, horse, war bonnet. On the reliefs to either side,
moose, buffalo, deer, bears, lion, zebra. On the cornice, Daniel
Boone, John James Audubon, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
|
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Joan of Arc,
by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1915
|
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Firemen's Memorial,
by Attilio Piccirilli, architect H. van Burn Magonigle, 1913
-
Riverside Drive and West 100th St.
-
Essay 45 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Index terms: firefighting, firefighter, widow,
horses, mother and child, modern pieta, fire engine, Sacrifice,
Duty, fire hydrant, allegory, allegorical
|
| |
Franz Sigel, by Karl Bitter, 1907
-
Riverside Drive and W. 106th St.
-
Brief
mention with the
Firemen's
Memorial.
-
Index terms: war memorial, Civil war, German
immigrants, immigration, Battle of Pea Ridge, journalist,
equestrian, horse
|
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Straus Memorial,
by Augustus Lukeman, architect Evarts Tracy, 1915
|
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Maine
Monument, by Attilio Piccirilli, architect H. van Buren Magonigle,
1913
-
Central Park at Columbus Circle (West 59th
St. and Central Park South).
-
Essay 34 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Index terms: Spanish-American War, allegory,
allegorical, Colombia Triumphant, seahorses, chariot, Atlantic
Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Peace, Courage, Peace, Victory, Justice,
History, War, William Randolph Hearst, New York Journal, Joseph
Pulitzer, New York World
|
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Simon
Bolivar, by Sally James Farnham, 1921
-
Central Park South at Sixth Avenue.
-
Essay 32 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. For the first
Bolivar statue in Manhattan,
click here.
-
Index terms: Latin America, South America,
equestrian, horse, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
|
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Jose Marti,
by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1959 (dedicated 1965)
|
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Jose de San Martin,
by Louis Joseph Daumas, 1951
-
Central Park South at Sixth Ave. (Avenue of the
Americas).
-
Brief mention with
Bolivar.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Argentina, equestrian, horse,
Chile, Peru, South America, Latin America
|
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Thomas Moore, by
Dennis B. Sheahan, 1879
-
Central Park, path leading to the Pond (north of the 60th St. entrance on
the east side of the Park).
-
Index terms: Irish, Ireland, poetry
|
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Tigress and Cubs, by Auguste Cain, 1866
|
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Antelopes, Birds, Monkeys, Lions, and Wolves, by Frederick
George Richard Roth, ca. 1934
- Central Park Zoo, Fifth Ave. at 64th St., reliefs on the Tropical
and Polar Zone Buildings, on the Gift Shop and on the Zoo School
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: animals
|
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Delacorte Clock, by Andrea Spadini, 1965
-
Central Park Children's Zoo, near Fifth Ave. at
64th St.
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal
sculptures.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: bear shaking tambourine, kangaroo &
offspring playing horn, elephant playing accordion or
concertina, goat playing Pan pipes, hippopotamus playing violin
or fiddle, penguin with drums, music
|
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Honey Bear; Dancing Goat,
by Frederick George Richard Roth, ca. 1935
|
| |
Lehman Gate, by
Paul Manship, 1960-1961
-
Entrance to Central Park Children's Zoo, near Fifth Ave. and 66th
St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: boy, goat, bird, pan pipes
|
| |
Balto, by Frederick
George Richard Roth, 1925
-
Central Park near the pedestrian tunnel beneath the East
Drive at about 66th St.
-
Also listed in the
walking
tour of animal sculptures.
-
Index terms: sled dog, Alaska, dog team,
Iditarod, blizzard, diphtheria, medicine
|
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Christopher Columbus, by Jeronimo Sunol, 1894
|
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Shakespeare, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1872
|
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Indian Hunter, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1866
-
Central Park, east of the
Sheep Meadow, west of the Literary Walk (where Shakespeare
& friends are).
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal
sculptures.
-
Index terms: Native American, dog, hunting
|
| |
Robert
Burns, by Sir John Steell, ca. 1880
-
Central Park, north of the 65th St. Traverse. If
the city streets grid continued in the Park, it would be at
about Sixth Ave. and 66th St.
-
Index terms: Scotland, Scottish, poetry,
literature
|
| |
Fitz-Greene Halleck, by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, 1876
-
Central Park, north of the 65th St. Traverse. If
the city streets grid continued in the Park, it would be at
about Sixth Ave. and 66th St.
-
Index terms: American literature, writer, poetry
|
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Sir Walter Scott,
by Sir John Steell, 1871
-
Central Park, north of the 65th St. Traverse. If
the city streets grid continued in the Park, it would be at
about Sixth Ave. and 66th St.
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
-
Index terms: Scotland, Scottish, poet, writer,
literature, novelist, hound, dog
|
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Ludwig
van Beethoven, by Henry Baerer, 1884
-
Central Park Mall, north end opposite the
bandshell
-
Index terms: classical music, Romantic music,
German
|
| |
Victor Herbert, by Edmond T. Quinn, 1927
-
Central Park Mall, across from the Bandstand,
near Beethoven. If the city streets grid continued in the
Park, it would be at about Sixth Ave. and 70th St.
-
Index terms: music, light opera
|
| |
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, by C.L.
Richter, ca. 1859
-
Central Park, west and slightly north of the
bandshell, just north of Beethoven. If the city streets grid
continued in the Park, it would be at about Sixth Ave. and 70th
St.Central Park Mall near the bandshell.
-
Mentioned with
Goethe.
-
Index terms: German, drama, writer, Romantic,
literature, poetry
|
| |
107th Infantry Memorial,
by Karl Illava, 1927
-
Central Park, facing Fifth Ave. at 67th
St.
-
Mentioned in
Battery Park podcast
-
Index terms: World War I, doughboy, infantry,
wounded soldier, gas masks, rifles
|
| |
Eagles and Prey, by Christophe Fratin, ca. 1850
-
Central Park, northwest of the Mall. If the city
streets grid continued in the Park, it would be at about Sixth
Ave. and 70th St.
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
-
Index terms: goat, hunt
|
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Angel of the Waters (Bethesda Fountain), by Emma Stebbins, 1868
- Central Park, Bethesda Terrace
- Index terms: Gospel of St. John, Neoclassical
|
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Giuseppe
Mazzini, by Giovanni Turini, 1876
-
Central Park, West Drive near West 66th St.
-
Mentioned in
Salute to Bolivar.
-
Index terms: Italy, Italian independence,
unification
|
| |
Seventh Regiment Memorial, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1869
- Central Park, West Drive at 67th St.
- Index terms: war memorial, Civil War, infantry soldier
|
| |
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, by Daniel Chester
French,
architect Bruce Price, 1900
-
Fifth Ave. between
70th and 71st Sts.
-
Essay 38 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Index terms: architecture, painting, sculpture,
allegory, allegorical, Dionysus from Parthenon pediment,
Columbian Exposition
|
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Samuel
Finley Breese Morse, by Byron M. Pickett, 1870
-
Just inside
Central Park at 72nd Street (near Fifth Avenue).
-
Discussed in detail in
Forgotten
Delights: The Producers. Also given a
Salute in May 2004.
-
Index terms: telegraph, technology,
communication, Neoclassical
|
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The Pilgrim, by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1885
-
East side of Central Park, just north
of the 72nd Street traverse where it splits into east- and westbound
lanes.
-
Discussed in detail in
Forgotten
Delights: The Producers. Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures from American History to 1800.
-
Index terms: Mayflower, musket, Bible with
sword, globe, sextant, hammer, anvil, spindle and yarn, ship,
bow and arrow with quiver
|
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Falconer, by George Blackall Simonds, 1871
-
Central Park, 20 feet or so up on a hill on the
south side of the West 72nd St. transverse road (between
Belvedere Terrace and the exit to Central Park West).
-
Listed in the
walking
tour of animal sculptures.
-
Index terms: medieval, Renaissance, bird
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Daniel
Webster, by Thomas Ball, 1876
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Central Park, West Drive near the 72nd St. entrance.
-
Index terms: United States senator,
Massachusetts, orator
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Mother Goose, by Frederick George Richard Roth, 1938
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Snow Babies, by Victor Frisch, ca. 1937
- Central Park near East Drive at 72nd St., at entrance to Mary
Harriman Rumsey Playground [location not confirmed]
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Hans Christian Andersen, by Georg John Lober, 1956
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Rowers, by Irwin Glusker, 1968
- Central Park's Conservatory Water near 74th St., terrace in
front of the boat house [location not confirmed]
-
Click here for photo on the NYC Parks Department's website
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: athlete, boat
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Alice in Wonderland, by Jose de Creeft, 1959
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Central Park, north side of
the Conservatory Lake, roughly at 75th St.
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Mad Hatter, Dormouse, toadstool,
mushroom, cat, White Rabbit
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Still Hunt, by Edward Kemeys, 1883
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Sophie Irene Loeb Fountain, by Frederick George
Richard Roth, 1936
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Central Park, roughly
at 76th St. (James Michael Levin Playground).
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
Mentioned in Balto
(with photograph).
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: White Queen, Queen of Hearts, White
Rabbit, Mad Hatter, March Hare, monkey, pig, frog, dog, Cheshire
Cat, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, carpenter?
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Alexander von Humboldt, by Gustaf Blaeser, 1869
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Central Park West at 77th
St., just east of the Museum of Natural History.
-
Discussed in detail in
Forgotten
Delights: The Producers.
-
Index terms: German, Enlightenment, scientist,
writer, naturalist, South American exploration, Latin America
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King Jagiello
of Poland, by Stanislaw Kazmierz Ostrowski, 1939
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Central Park at the east end of the Turtle Pond, just north
of the 79th St. transverse road.
-
Essay 39 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Blog entry of 7/17/07, with a close-up photo of his face
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Polish, equestrian, horse, 1939
World's Fair, swords, armor, medieval, Lithuania, Battle of
Grunwald
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The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, by Milton Hebald, 1966,
1977
- Central Park, near the entrance to the Delacorte Theater,
Central Park West and 81st St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: Shakespeare, drama, lovers
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Group of Bears, by Paul Manship, 1932; this cast,
1991
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Facade sculptures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karl Bitter, 1899
- Fifth Avenue at 82nd St.
- Index terms: allegory, allegorical
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Egyptian obelisk ("Cleopatra's Needle"), 16th c. B.C.
-
Central Park just
west of the Metropolitan Museum, roughly at 82nd St.
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
-
Index terms: crabs, hieroglyphics, Pharaoh Tuthmose
or Thothmes III
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Alexander Hamilton,
by Carl Conrads, 1880
-
Central Park, East Drive at about 83rd St.,
behind the Metropolitan Museum
-
Essay 43 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures
from American History to 1800 and
Hamilton
tour flyer. See also transcript of
Hamilton walking tour given 10/3/04.
-
Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary
War, Secretary of the Treasury, mercantilism, orator, New York
Evening Post, journalism, media, writer
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Polhymnia (?), by Giuseppe Moretti, ca. 1896
- Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th St., near Fifth Ave. [location not
confirmed]
- Index terms: Greek mythology, allegory, allegorical?
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John Purroy Mitchel Memorial, by Adolph A. Weinman, ca. 1926
- Central Park, Fifth Ave. at 90th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: New York City mayor, World War I, war memorial
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Fred Lebow, by Jesus Ygnacio Dominguez, 1994
- Central Park, Fifth Avenue at 90th Street.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: New York City Marathon, jogger, athlete
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William T.
Stead, by George James Frampton, 1913 Central Park, at Fifth Ave.
and 91st St.
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Central Park, Fifth Ave. at 91st St.
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Index terms: Titanic, journalist, writer,
Fortitude, Sympathy, knight, medieval armor
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Albert
Bertel Thorvaldsen, self-portrait, 1839 (copy cast in 1892)
-
Central Park, off Fifth Ave. at 96th St., on a
wooded hill just north of where the 96th St. traverse meets
Fifth Ave.
-
Index terms: Neoclassical style, Danish,
Denmark, Hope, Night, Day
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Arthur
Brisbane, by Richmond Barthe, 1939
-
Fifth Ave. and 101st Street: a granite portrait
relief with inscription set
against the wall of Central Park.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: journalist, media, newspaper,
William Randolph Hearst, New York Journal, editor, journalist,
Spanish-American War
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Dr. J.
Marion Sims, by Ferdinand von Miller II, 1892
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Burnett Memorial
Fountain, by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 1936
-
South end of the Conservatory Garden: enter at Fifth
Ave. and 105th St., turn left and head south to approximately
103rd/104th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: children, birdbath, flute player,
seashell
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Untermeyer Fountain,
by Walter Schott, before 1910
-
North end of the Conservatory Garden: enter at Fifth Ave. and 105th
St., turn right and head north to approximately 106th St.
-
Index terms: dance, party, celebration, German
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Duke Ellington, by Robert Graham, 1997
-
Northeast corner of Central Park, Fifth Ave. at
110th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: musician, jazz, African American
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Pulitzer Memorial Fountain (a.k.a. Abundance or Pomona),
by Karl Bitter, 1916
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William Tecumseh
Sherman, by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1903
-
Fifth Avenue at 59th St., just east of the Plaza Hotel.
-
Essay 31 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan.
More on Sherman in a
September salute, including his
letter to the
Mayor of Atlanta.
-
Index terms: Civil War, equestrian, horse,
Victory, Nike, allegory, allegorical, pine branch, March through
Georgia
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Cat, by Fernando Brotero, 1984
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Peter Pan, by Charles Andrew Hafner, 1928
- Carl Schurz Park, near East 87th St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: J.M. Barrie, teenager, fawn, deer, rabbit, toad, frog
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ASPCA Horses, by Hunt Diedrich, ca. 1925
- ASPCA Headquarters, East 92nd St. between York and the FDR Drive
[location unconfirmed]
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George Washington Carver, by Robert Amendola, ca. 1955
- Carver Houses playground, off 101 St. between Park and Madison Aves.
[location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: African American
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Alexander Hamilton, by Adolph Weinman, 1941
-
Museum of the City of New York facade, Fifth
Ave. at 103rd St.
-
Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures from American History to 1800, and
Hamilton walking tour.
See
also transcript of Hamilton walking tour
given 10/3/04.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary
War, Secretary of the Treasury, mercantilism, orator, New York
Evening Post, journalism, media, writer
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DeWitt Clinton, by Adolph A. Weinman, 1941
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Peace Fountain, by Greg Wyatt, 1985
-
Garden of the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, Amsterdam Ave. between 111th and 112th Sts.
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal sculptures.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: good and evil, archangel Michael,
Satan, giraffe, lion, lamb, sheep, sun, moon, DNA, flames, crab
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Samuel Tilden, by William Ordway Partridge,
1917-1926
-
Riverside Drive at West 112th St.
-
Brief mention with the
Firemen's
Memorial.
-
Index terms: New York State governor, United
States presidential candidate, lawyer, major donor to New York
Public Library
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Lajos Kossuth, by John Horvall, 1927
-
Riverside Drive at West 113th St.
-
Brief mention with the
Firemen's
Memorial and in the Salute to
Mazzini.
-
Index terms: Hungary, Hungarian independence,
Austro-Hungarian Empire, peasant, lawyer
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Seligman
Fountain, or the Bear and Faun Fountain, by Edgar Walter, ca.
1910
-
Morningside Park, 114th St. and Morningside
Ave., at the foot of the stairway (due west of the Lafayette
and Washington statue on Morningside Ave.)
-
Listed in the
walking tour of animal
sculptures.
-
Index terms: animals, pan pipes
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Lafayette and Washington, by Frederic-Auguste
Bartholdi, 1890
-
Intersection 114th St., Manhattan Avenue, and
Morningside Avenue.
-
Brief mention with the
Seligman Fountain.
Listed in walking tour flyer,
Figures from American
History to 1800.
-
Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary
War, Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, flag
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Carl Schurz Monument,
by Karl Bitter, architect Henry Bacon, 1913
-
Upper Morningside Drive and
116th St.
-
Essay 50 in
Outdoor
Monuments of Manhattan. Brief mention with the
Seligman Fountain.
-
Index terms: German American immigrant,
journalist, writer, media. Reliefs: Athena, shackles, African
American, Egyptian, Native American, Liberty, mother and child,
allegorical, allegory, imperialism
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Letters and Science, by Charles Keck, ca. 1915 and 1925
- Columbia University, south and north pylons of the entrance on
Broadway at 116th St.
- Index terms: literature, science, Neoclassical, education, allegory,
allegorical, globe, compass
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Alma Mater, by Daniel Chester French, 1903
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Great God Pan,
by George Gray Barnard, 1894-1899
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Columbia University, west of Low Library. Enter
the campus on Broadway at 116th St., turn left toward Low
Library, which has French's Alma Mater on the steps, then
bear left again into the quadrangle between Earl, Lewisohn and
Dodge.
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Index terms: Greek mythology, pan pipes
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The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin, 1880
- Columbia University, in front of the Philosophy Building. Enter the
campus on Broadway at 116th St., go east and then left, up the stairs
toward the Low Library; turn right on the stairs.
The statue is in a small open area on the south side of St Paul's
Chapel.
- Index terms: France, French, Le Penseur
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Tightrope Walker, by Kees Verkade, 1973-1979
- Columbia University, Revson Plaza near the overpass across Amsterdam
Ave. at 117th St. [location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: circus, acrobatic, allegorical, allegory
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Marteleur, by Constantin-Emile Meunier, 1914 copy
of an 1884 work
-
Columbia University, entrance to the
Engineering Building (northeast corner of the campus, near Amsterdam Ave.
and 120th St.).
-
Discussed in detail in
Forgotten
Delights: The Producers.
-
Labor Day greeting card
-
Index terms: iron making, steel making,
technology, manufacturing, industry, blue-collar worker
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Thomas Jefferson,
by William Ordway Partridge, 1914
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Alexander Hamilton, by William Ordway Partridge,
1908
-
Columbia University: enter on 116th St., turn
right, then left (due east of the Jefferson sculpture)
-
Listed in walking tour flyer
Figures
from American History to 1800 and in
Hamilton flyer. See also
transcript
of Hamilton walking tour given 10/3/04.
-
Index terms: American Revolution, Revolutionary
War, Secretary of the Treasury, mercantilism, orator, New York
Evening Post, journalism, media, writer
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Robert F. Wagner, by Georg John Lober, 1959
-
Terrace adjacent to the Robert F.
Wagner, Sr., Houses, 120th St. and Second Ave.
-
Brief mention with the
Seligman Fountain.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: United States senator, New Deal,
unions
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General Daniel Butterfield, by Gutzon Borglum,
1917
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Sakura Park,
Claremont Ave. and West 122nd St.
-
Essay 52 in
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan.
-
Index terms: Civil War, Taps, American Express,
chapeau de bras, Wall Street, Black Friday, New York Stock
Exchange
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General Winfield Scott Hancock,
by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, 1891
-
Hancock Square, where Manhattan Avenue and St.
Nicholas Avenue meet at 124th St.
-
Also mentioned in
salute to Seward.
-
Index terms: Civil War, war memorial, United
States presidential candidate, Gettysburg
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Abraham Lincoln and Child, by Charles Keck, 1948
- Madison Ave. near 133rd St.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: United States president, education, Civil War
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The Family, by John Rhoden, 1969
- Harlem Hospital, over the main entrance on Lenox Ave. between 135th
and 136th Sts. [location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: mother and child, caduceus
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Alexander Stewart Webb, by John Massey Rhind, 1917
- City College, on Convent Avenue between 138th and 139th Streets.
- Index terms: Civil War, war memorial, education, Gettysburg,
Pickett's Charge
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Alexander Hamilton, by William Ordway Partridge,
1892
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Jackie Robinson, by Inge Hardison, 1981
- Mounted on wall of the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center, 147th St.
and Bradhurst Ave. [location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: baseball, athlete, African American
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Martin Luther King, Jr., by Sam Sawyer, 1970
- Esplanade Garden Houses, 147th St. at Lenox Ave. [location not
confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: African American
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Mother and Child, by Heinz Warneke, 1937
- Harlem River Houses, 151st to 153rd Sts., macombs Place to Harlem
River Drive. [location not confirmed]
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
- Index terms: African American
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Lions, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1930
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Boabdil
and Don Quixote, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1942 and 1943
-
Reliefs in the courtyard
of the Hispanic Society of America, 613 West 155th Street.
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Spanish literature, Moors, Granada,
equestrian, horse
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El Cid Campeador,
by Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1927
-
Courtyard
of the Hispanic Society of America, 613 West 155th St.
-
Essay 54
in Outdoor Monuments of
Manhattan.
Also brief
mention with
Boabdil.
Discussed at length, along with the Hispanic Society courtyard, in "Getting
More Enjoyment from Art You Love," The Objective Standard
(Summer 2006).
- NOTE: before publishing a photograph, see
Copyright Issues
-
Index terms: Spain, Spanish, equestrian, horse,
medieval armor, spear, pennant,
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Deer, bears, boars, vultures and jaguars, by Anna Hyatt
Huntington, 1929-1936
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Inwood (or Washington Heights) War Memorial,
by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1921
-
Broadway and St. Nicholas Ave., between 167th
and 168th Streets.
-
Also mentioned in salute to
Peter Stuyvesant.
-
Index terms: World War I, doughboy, wounded,
rifle, infantry
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BROOKLYN
My files for Brooklyn are incomplete, so for the moment I'm only
including sculptures in and near Prospect Park.
Prospect Park
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza, including the
Quadriga (chariot with
Victory) on top of the Arch, and the reliefs Army and Navy by
Frederick MacMonnies, 1901
- Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
- Index terms: Reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant
by Thomas Eakins with William O'Donovan
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Beethoven, by Henry Baerer, 1894
-
Prospect Park, Flower Garden, near the Wollman Rink.
-
Index terms: musician, German
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Edvard Grieg, by Sigvald Asbjornsen, 1914
-
Prospect Park, Flower Garden, near the Wollman Rink.
-
Index terms: musician, Norway,
Norwegian
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Augustus Max Johannes Mueller, 1897
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Prospect Park, Flower Garden, near the Wollman Rink.
-
Index terms: musician,
Austrian, German
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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst Von Weber, by Chester Beach, 1909
-
Prospect Park, Flower Garden, near the
Wollman Rink.
-
Index terms: musician, German
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Abraham Lincoln, by Henry Kirke Brown, 1870
- Prospect Park near the Wollman Rink
- Index terms: United States president, Civil War, lawyer
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Horse Tamers, by Frederick MacMonnies, 1898
- Prospect Park, Park Circle entrance
- Index terms: equestrian
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James Stranahan, by Frederick MacMonnies, 1891
- Prospect Park, near main entrance at Grand Army Plaza
- Index terms:
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Lafayette, by Daniel Chester French, 1917
- Prospect Park, 9th St. entrance
- Index terms: Revolutionary War, American Revolution, French
Revolution, Marquis de Lafayette, horse
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Lioness and Cubs, by Victor Peter, 1899
- Entrance to the Prospect Park Zoo
- Index terms: animals
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Greenpoint
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Greenpoint War Memorial, by Carl Heber, 1923
- McGolrick Park, facing Russell St. between Driggs and Nassau
- Index terms: Victory, laurel branch, palm frond
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