Innovators in Sculpture & Innovators in Painting

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…

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Walking Tour of Sculptures in Manhattan’s Financial District, 1: Introduction and Surrogate’s Court
Philip Martiny, Surrogate's Court sculptures, 1907. Photo copyright © 2019 Dianne L. Durante

Walking Tour of Sculptures in Manhattan’s Financial District, 1: Introduction and Surrogate’s Court

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…

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John Watts, Jr., Trinity Churchyard
George Edwin Bissell, John Watts, Jr., 1893. Trinity Church, New York. Photo copyright © 2019 Dianne L. Durante

John Watts, Jr., Trinity Churchyard

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,…

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Abraham de Peyster by Bissell

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,…

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MacMonnies’s Stranahan, Prospect Park

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,…

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Washington’s Inaugural Address, 4/30/1789

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…

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Celebrating the Battles of Lexington and Concord: Kitson
Henry Hudson Kitson, Minute Man, 1900. Photo: Aldaron / Wikipedia

Celebrating the Battles of Lexington and Concord: Kitson

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…

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