• Also known as: Bear & Faun Fountain
  • Date: 1914
  • Sculptor: Edgar Walter
  • Medium & size: Bronze, 8 feet high
  • Location: Morningside Park, 114th St. and Morningside Ave., at foot of the stairway (due west of the statue of Lafayette and Washington on Morningside Ave.).

A bear sprawls on an overhang, trying to stretch his paw far enough to reach the faun who huddles below. This piece is a working fountain – the water comes out by the faun’s left hand, and a century of hands resting there have rubbed the bronze to a high polish.

The sculpture was erected in memory of Alfred Lincoln Seligman, Vice-President of the National Highways Protective Association, who died in 1912 in an early automobile accident.

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