MacMonnies, Nathan Hale, 1890. City Hall Park. Photos copyright © 2019 Dianne L. Durante MacMonnies's sculpture of Nathan Hale faces City Hall: in fact, it stands almost where Civic Virtue…
The video of this post includes samples pages from both books. Innovators in Sculpture: 6x9 inches, 162 pp. including 385 color illustrations. Available from Amazon; other stores via Ingram (9781088090497…
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 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…