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The statue, cast in 1880 and dedicated on May 25, 1881, is set on a Coopersburg, Pennsylvania black granite pedestal. [1] The work depicts Farragut, the noted United States Navy admiral of the Civil War, standing in naval uniform with binoculars and sword; the statue rests upon a plinth and then a pedestal, surrounded by a semicircular, winged exedra, which features a bas-relief figure of a ...
William Tecumseh Sherman, also known as the Sherman Memorial or Sherman Monument, [1] [2] is a sculpture group honoring William Tecumseh Sherman, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and located at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan, New York.
Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...
‘Dinosaur,’ a colossal 16-foot pigeon sculpture, highlights the urban bird’s prehistoric roots.
A statue of Thomas Jefferson should be removed from the City Council chambers, say Speaker Corey Johnson and the leaders of the Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus. “Jefferson is America ...
There is a statue of Admiral Farragut at the South Boston Marine Park adjacent to Castle Island. There is also an outdoor sculpture of him in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, New York City, where the Farragut section of the Borough of Brooklyn, [41] including Farragut Road, is named for him. [42] A street in The Bronx, New York is also named ...
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Statue of David Farragut (New York City) Statue of David Farragut (Washington, D.C.) This page was last edited on 25 September 2020, at 00:45 (UTC). Text is ...