List of public art in New York City

The collection of outdoor sculpture in New York City is said to be the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States of America.^[1] With works from such great sculptors as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French and John Quincy Adams Ward, over 300 sculptures are found on the streets and in parks across the New York metropolitan area. Some of the best known outdoor sculptures in New York City are presented below.

Manhattan

Statues of Giovanni da Verrazzano, John Ambrose and John Ericsson in Battery Park.
The Charging Bull of Bowling Green Plaza.
John Watts outside Trinity Church Cemetery.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton mounted on her shrine at 7 State Street.
George Washington outside Federal Hall National Memorial.
Benjamin Franklin outside Pace University.
Nathan Hale outside City Hall.
Horace Greeley outside City Hall Park and in Greeley Square
Lajos Kossuth in Riverside Park
Vladimir Lenin at Houston Street between Avenues A and B
Patrick Joseph Hayes at St. Andrew's Church near Duane Street.
Confucius located in the Confucius Plaza at Bowery and Division Streets.
Lin Zexu located in the Lin Zexu Square at East Broadway and Chatham Square.
Governor Al Smith located in the Al Smith playground at Monroe and Catherine Streets.
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at Madison and Jefferson Streets and at LaGuardia Place north of Bleecker Street
Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln in Union Square
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Façade of the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. [1]
Winged Lioness, Façade NYC Landmark Brockholst Building, 101 W 85th Street and Columbus Ave., NY, NY 10024.[2]
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Alexander Holley and George Washington in Washington Square Park
Governor Daniel Tompkins and Governor Peter Stuyvesant in St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery at 2nd Avenue and 10th Street
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra off 5th Avenue north of Washington Square Park
Samuel J. Tilden, 112th Street and Riverside Drive
Franz Sigel, 106th Street and Riverside Drive
General Philip Sheridan in Sheridan Square 7th Avenue South, near 4th and Christopher Streets.
Peter Cooper in Peter Cooper Square on East 7th Street.
Jackie Gleason outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal
The Alamo, the balanced cube in Astor Place
William Cullen Bryant in Bryant Park
The Joan of Arc equestrian statue in Riverside Park
Isamu Noguchi's Cube, in front of the Marine Midland Building
Winged Gargoyle (Lioness), Façade of the Brockholst Building, 101 W 85th Street, and Columbus Avenue, NY, NY 10024. [3]
The Peace Fountain on the grounds of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Eleanor Roosevelt at the corner of West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive in Riverside Park

Central Park

North of Conservatory Water, the sailboat pond, there is a larger than life bronze statue of Alice, sitting on a huge mushroom, playing with her cat, while the Mad Hatter and the March Hare look on. Not too far away, just West of the model boat house, there is a statue of Hans Christian Andersen, holding an open book, with the diminutive hero of The Ugly Duckling in front of him.

There are about a dozen other statues in the park and its Mall.

General Sherman, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan), the southeast corner of Central Park
- Abundance, crowning the Pulitzer fountain in the same plaza
Simón Bolívar at the head of Avenue of the Americas
José Martí flanking Bolivar
The Monument to the Maine at Columbus Circle
King Władysłav Jagiełło next to Turtle Pond
Balto northwest of the Children's Zoo
Ludwig van Beethoven located in the Central Park Mall
Victor Herbert facing the Naumburg Bandshell on the Mall
Giuseppe Mazzini overlooking the Sheep Meadow

The Bronx

The Bronx Victory Column in Pelham Bay Park.
The Bronx Zoo has a statue of a Rhinoceros.
Loreley fountain of Ernst Herter in Kilmer Park near the Grand Concourse.

Brooklyn

Several statues in Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park
William Jay Gaynor in Cadman Plaza Park
Brooklyn War Memorial in Cadman Plaza Park
Henry Ward Beecher on Orange Street and on Old Fulton Street
Christopher Columbus on Old Fulton Street
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park
Monitor monument and victory angel in McGolrick Park

Queens

Civic Virtue by Frederick William MacMonnies, nude Hercules who made a scandal in City Hall Park and was banished to Kew Gardens, Queens
Rocket Thrower by Donald De Lue, located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Socrates Sculpture Park on Vernon Blvd. and Broadway in Long Island City
Unisphere, a 12-story high, spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Staten Island

Postcards September 11 memorial
Francis the Praying Mantis
Hari IV by Bill Barrett outside of New Dorp High School

References

^ New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (n.d.). "Permanent Art and Monuments". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved 2 March 2009.

External links

[1] New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (n.d.). "Permanent Art and Monuments". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved 2 March 2009.

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