Untermyer Fountain

Untermyer Fountain
The fountain and sculpture in 2008
Artist	Walter Schott
Type	Fountain, sculpture
Material	Bronze, limestone
Location	New York City, New York, U.S.
Coordinates	40°47′39″N 73°57′07″W / 40.79426°N 73.95195°W / 40.79426; -73.95195Coordinates: 40°47′39″N 73°57′07″W / 40.79426°N 73.95195°W / 40.79426; -73.95195

The Untermyer Fountain is an outdoor fountain and bronze cast of Walter Schott's Three Dancing Maidens sculpture, located in Central Park's Conservatory Garden in Manhattan, New York, in the United States.

Description and history

Samuel Untermyer, 1932

Untermyer Fountain, located in the Conservatory Garden of Central Park, features a bronze cast of Walter Schott's Three Dancing Maidens, completed in Germany prior to 1910. Named after American lawyer and civic leader Samuel Untermyer, the fountain was donated to the park by his children, following his death in 1940.^[1]

Originally, the sculpture was located at his estate in Yonkers, New York, though how he acquired the cast from the Berlin original or had it created is unknown. The fountain was installed in Central Park in 1947 and may be accessed from the North Garden entrance at 106th Street and Fifth Avenue or the main entrance at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue.^[1]

Three Dancing Maidens depicts three young women, holding hands in a circle, "whose dresses cling to their wet bodies as if they were perpetually in the fountain's spray".^[1] The fountain includes three jets: two on the oval pool's sides and a larger one in the center of the sculpture. The sculpture sits on a limestone base.^[1]

Reception

The fountain has been included in guidebooks and walking tours of Central Park.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 "Untermyer Fountain". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
↑ Carroll, Raymond (May 1, 2008). The Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4027-5833-1. Retrieved June 4, 2014.

External links

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Untermyer Gardens Tour May 26, 2012 by Gay Giordano and David Ludwig, Institute of Classical Architecture and Art

Central Park

Features

Geographical features	Cedar Hill Cherry Hill Conservatory Garden Conservatory Water Great Lawn / Turtle Pond Harlem Meer Onassis Reservoir The Pond and Hallett Nature Sanctuary The Ramble and Lake Seneca Village Sheep Meadow

Sculptures	107th Infantry Memorial Balto Christopher Columbus Cleopatra's Needle Daniel Webster Eagles and Prey The Falconer Fitz-Greene Halleck Giuseppe Mazzini Indian Hunter King Jagiello Monument Robert Burns Romeo and Juliet Samuel Finley Breese Morse Seventh Regiment Memorial Sir Walter Scott The Gates (former) Untermyer Fountain USS Maine National Monument Victor Herbert William Shakespeare

Other features	Arsenal Belvedere Castle Bethesda Terrace and Fountain Blockhouse Bridges Burnett Memorial Fountain Carousel Delacorte Theater Diana Ross Playground Fort Clinton Lasker Rink Mall Marionette Theatre McGowan's Pass McGown's Pass Tavern Richard Morris Hunt Memorial Rumsey Playfield Strawberry Fields Tavern on the Green Victorian Gardens Wollman Rink Zoo Escape hoax Zoo York Wall Zoo York

Events

Neighboring features

Streets	Border Streets Fifth (East) North South West Transverses 66th 79th 85th 97th

Subway stations	Fifth Avenue – 59th Street 59th Street – Columbus Circle 72nd Street 81st Street 86th Street 96th Street 103rd Street Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street Central Park North – 110th Street

People and animals

Miscellaneous

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