This ten-part series is based on a walking tour I offered some years ago. Click “NYC walking tour” in the tag cloud for others in the series. Look for videos on…
This ten-part series is based on a walking tour I offered some years ago. Click "NYC walking tour" in the tag cloud for others in the series. Look for videos…
Date: 1893 Sculptor: George Edwin BissellMedium & size: Bronze, 9 feet on a 6-foot pedestal. Location: Trinity Church graveyard, facing Broadway. George Edwin Bissell, John Watts, Jr., 1893. Trinity Church,…
Date: 1896 Sculptor: George Edwin BissellMedium & size: Bronze, over life-size, on a granite pedestal. Location: Thomas Paine Park / Foley Square, lower Manhattan George Edwin Bissell, Abraham De Peyster,…
James S.T. Stranahan Date: 1891 Sculptor: Frederick MacMonnies Architect: Stanford White Medium & size: bronze (green patina), 7'8" tall. Pedestal: Knoxville marble and pink granite, 7'4" tall. Location: Prospect Park,…
On the steps of Federal Hall, facing Wall Street, stands Ward's sculpture of George Washington, representing him on April 30, 1789, just after his inauguration as first president of the…
The Lexington Minute Man Daniel Chester French's Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, is the famous one. I love all French's works (especially the Continents), but I like Kitson's Minute Man…
Date: 1888; unveiled in Bronx in 1899 Sculptor: Ernst HerterMedium & size: Tyrolean marble, Dover marble, bronze, granite. Total height 19 feet. Basin diameter 34.5 feet. Location: Southern end of…
Date: 1881 Sculptor: Karl Adolph DonndorfMedium & size: Bronze group, over life-size, on a granite pedestal. Location: Union Square, west side, between 15th and 16th Streets K.A. Donndorf's James Fountain,…
Date: 1881Sculptor: Olin Levi WarnerMedium & size: Terracotta heads, just over lifesize Location: 128 Pierrepont at Clinton, Brooklyn Heights George B. Post, Brooklyn Historical Society, 1878-1881. Photo: Gnarly / Wikipedia.…