Outdoor monuments of Manhattan : a historical guide
"Stop, look, and discover-the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the fifty-four monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Marquis de Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French's Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington's Jose Marti and Joan of Arc." "Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are consider both as historical mementos and as art. Sidebars reveal other aspect of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (The New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz." "As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States, and the world. As an aesthetic handbook, it provides a concise method for learning to study sculpture. For residents and tourists, historians and students, and anyone who wants to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
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vii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780814719862, 9780814719879, 0814719864, 0814719872
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Statue of Liberty / Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
John Ericsson / Jonathan Scott Hartley
Giovanni da Verrazzano / Ettore Ximenes
Continents / Daniel Chester French
Charging Bull / Arturo Di Modica
George Washington / John Quincy Adams Ward
Horace Greeley / John Quincy Adams Ward
Nathan Hale / Frederick MacMonnies
Fiorello La Guardia / Neil Estern
Peter Cooper / Augustus Saint Gaudens
Alexander Lyman Holley / John Quincy Adams Ward
Washington Arch / Hermon MacNeil and Alexander Stirling Calder
George Washington / Henry Kirke Brown
Marquis de Lafayette / Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
Abraham Lincoln / Henry Kirke Brown
Peter Stuyvesand / Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Edwin Booth as Hamley / Edmond T. Quinn
Roscoe Conkling / John Quincy Adams Ward
Farragut Monument / Augustus Saint Gaudens
Samuel Rea / Adolph A. Weinman
Bell Ringers' Mounment (James Gordon Bennett Memorial) / Antonin Jean Paul Carles
William Cullen Bryant Memorial / Herbert Adams
Gertrude Stein / Jo Davidson
William Earl Dodge / John Quincy Adams Ward
Cornelius Vanderbilt / Ernst Plassmann
Glory of Commerce / Jules-Felix Coutan
Father Francis P. Duffy / Charles Keck
Prometheus / Paul Manship
Atlas / Lee Lawrie
News / Isamu Noguchi
Sherman Monument / Augustus Saint Gaudens
Simón Bolívar / Sally James Farnham
Jóse Martí / Anna Hyatt Huntington
Maine Mounment / Attilio Piccirilli
Columbus Monument / Gaetano Russo
Christopher Columbus / Jeronimo Suñol
William Shakespeare / John Quincy Adams Ward
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial / Daniel Chester French
King Jagiello / Stanislaw Kazimierz Ostrowski
Eleanor Roosevelt / Penelope Jencks
Verdi Monument / Pasquale Civiletti
Theodore Roosevelt / James Earle Fraser
Alexander Hamilton / Carl Conrads
Joan of Arc / Anna Hyatt Huntington
Firemen's Memorial / Attilio Piccirilli
Straus Memorial / Augustus Lukeman
Dr. James Marion Sims / Ferdinand von Miller II
De Witt Clinton / Adolph A. Weinman
Alma Mater / Daniel Chester Frency
Thomas Jefferson / William Ordway Partridge / Carl Schurz Monument
Daniel Butterfield / Gutzon Borglum
Alexander Hamilton / William Ordway Partridge / El Cid Campeador / Anna Hyatt Huntington