Outdoor sculpture 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.

In Manhattan

• The statues of Giovanni da Verrazzano, John Ambrose and John Ericsson in Battery Park.
• The famous 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.
• 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 o the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. [1]
• Guiseppe Garibaldi, Alexander Holley and George Washington in Washington Square Park
• Governor Daniel Tompkins and Governor Peter Stuyvesant in Saint 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 Phillip Sheridan in Sheridan Square 7th Avenue South, near 4th and Chrstopher 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
• The Peace Fountain on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
• Eleanor Roosevelt at the corner of West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive in Riverside Park

In Central Park

Main article: List of sculptures in 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

In the Bronx

• The Bronx Zoo has a statue of a Rhinoceros.
• Loreley fountain of Ernst Herter near the Grand Concourse.

In Brooklyn

• Several statues in Grand Army Plaza
• William Jay Gaynor in Cadman Plaza Park

In 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

In Staten Island

• Staten Island September 11 Memorial

See also

• Public art
• Statues and sculptures in New York City
• List of sculptures in Central Park

References

1. ^ New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (undated). "Permanent Art and Monuments". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/monuments/monuments_search.php. Retrieved 2 March 2009. 

External links

• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Lower Manhattan at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Chinatown, Soho and the Village at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Madison and Union Square at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Midtown at Forgotten NY
• "Who are those guys(and gals)?" for Central Park at Forgotten NY
• Forgotten Delights index of outdoor representational sculptures in New York City, many with photos and comments
• "The Statue of Civic Virtue" from A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY