Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (Manhattan)

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

The monument in 2006
Artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Stanford White
Year 1881 (1881)
Type Sculpture
Material Bronze, granite
Subject David Farragut
Location New York City, New York, United States

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, also known as the Admiral Farragut Monument, is an outdoor bronze sculpture of David Farragut by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens on an exedra designed architect Stanford White, located in Madison Square in Manhattan, New York. The statue, cast in 1880 and dedicated on May 25, 1881, is set on a Coopersberg (Pennsylvania) black granite pedestal.[1]

A 1910 bronze bust from the sculpture is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Madison Square Park: Admiral David Glasgow Farragut". New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Coordinates: 40°44′33″N 73°59′16″W / 40.74260°N 73.98770°W / 40.74260; -73.98770


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