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.…
Date: 1994 Sculptor: Jesus Ygnacio DominguezMedium & size: Bronze, life-size, on a black granite pedestal. Location (usually): Central Park, 90th Street and the East Drive. Jesus Ygnacio Dominguez, Fred Lebow,…
Who'd have expected that the world's best collection of stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) would be within an hour of Disney World? The Morse Museum also has the…
Sculptor: Sally James Farnham. Pedestal: Clarke and Rapuano. Dedicated: 1921; relocated and rededicated 1951. Medium and size: Bronze (13.5 feet), granite pedestal (20.3 feet). Location: Central Park South at Avenue…
Available in print & ebook, from Amazon (scroll to From the Publisher for page samples) Available from other stores via Ingram (9781088217214 print, 9781088217290 ebook) 6x9"; 189 pp.; 203 color…
Date: 1939 Sculptor: Richmond BartheMedium & size: Granite shaft with seat on one side; sunken medallion with profile portrait.. Location: Outer wall of Central Park, facing Fifth Ave. at 101st…
Duke Ellington Date: 1997 Sculptor: Robert GrahamMedium & size: Location: Northeast corner of Central Park (Fifth Ave. and 110th St.). Robert Graham, Duke Ellington, 1997. Fifth Avenue at 110th St.…
Given the size of Central Park, it was obvious to engineer Egbert Ludovicus Viele that roads would have to be built across it for use by commercial traffic. In his…