Statues and sculptures in New York City
See also: Outdoor sculpture in New York City
New York City is the largest city in the United States and one of the world's major global cities. As such, it has many large monuments, statues, sculptures, and other artistic pieces spread throughout its five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx. Any statue listed here is considered to be "any three-dimensional or roughly three-dimensional object which shape was generated by an individual or group of individuals with the specific intent to convery artistic, historic, and/or cultural meaning."
List
Statue | Sculptor/Designer | Dimensions | Created | Image | Location | |||
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Height | Width | Depth | Weight | |||||
Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Bartholdi/Gustave Eiffel | 151 ft | ~40 ft | ~40 ft | 204 tons | October 28, 1886 | Liberty Island, New York Harbor | |
Swing Low | Alison Saar | ~10 ft | Unknown | Unknown | 2 tons | 2007 | Saint Nicholas Avenue, West 122nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) | |
Cleopatra's Needle | Unknown | 71-77 ft | ~6 ft | ~6 ft | 193-244 tons | January 22, 1881/1450 BC | Central Park, Manhattan | |
Bellerophon Taming Pegasus | Jacques Lipchitz | 29' 11" [1][2] | 22' 4" | 9' 10" | N/A | 1964-1967 | Columbia University, Manhattan | |
Civic Fame | Adolph Alexander Weinman | 25 ft | N/A | N/A | N/A | March 1913 | Manhattan Municipal Building, Manhattan | |
Statue of Atlas | Lee Lawrie | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) | 1936 | Rockefeller Center, directly across 5th Avenue from St. Patrick's Cathedral | |
Statue of Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian revolutioner, President of Hungary | János Horvai | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1928 | 113th Street and Riverside Drive | |
Red Cube | Isamu Noguchi | 1968 | HSBC Building, Lower Manhattan |
Notes
- ↑ Half Scale Sculpture, "Bellerophon Taming Pegasus: Large Version, 1964–66." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
- ↑ Lipchitz Art Review, "Art Review; Lipchitz, an Ocean Away From His Cubist Years." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
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