Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton - Statues In The Park ( 57) looking almost alive and well in Central Park NYC An outdoor granite sculpture by Carl Conrads . Hamilton's son, John C. Hamilton, commissioned Conrads to sculpt this statue, which was dedicated on November 22, 1880, and donated to the city. Conrads used the bust of Hamilton created by the sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi as a model for Hamilton's head.

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Staues in The Park (55) Central Park. Sculpted by Robert Graham and was dedicated on July 1, 1997 at the circle defining the northest corner of Central Park. 110th and 5th ave

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Statues – Statues In The Park (53)– Riverside Park The monument, honoring humanitarian and First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), was dedicated at 72nd Street on October 5, 1996 in the presence of Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States. Penelope Jencks was the sculptor. A new landscape on the site of a former West Side Highway access ramp was designed by Bruce Kelly/David Varnell Landscape Architects. Funding for the $1.3 million Eleanor Roosevelt Monument project, which included a renovated entranceway, was provided by the City of New York, the State of New York, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund, which has established an endowment for the ongoing maintenance of the sculpture.

Giovanni da Verrazzano

Giovanni da Verrazzano – Statues In The Park (52)-The Battery NYC This heroic sculpture of Italian explorer and navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528) is by Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) and was dedicated October 9, 1909. At the time of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909, the Italian community was mobilized by Carlo Barsotti, the editor of the Italian language newspaper Il Progresso, to contribute funds toward the creation of this statue. The larger than life bronze bust of the proud explorer was stationed on an elaborate granite pedestal with side volutes, with a bronze female allegorical figure representing discovery installed on the façade.

Giovanni da Verrazzano

Giovanni da Verrazzano – Statues In The Park (52)-The Battery NYC This heroic sculpture of Italian explorer and navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528) is by Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) and was dedicated October 9, 1909. At the time of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909, the Italian community was mobilized by Carlo Barsotti, the editor of the Italian language newspaper Il Progresso, to contribute funds toward the creation of this statue. The larger than life bronze bust of the proud explorer was stationed on an elaborate granite pedestal with side volutes, with a bronze female allegorical figure representing discovery installed on the façade.

Joan of Arc Memorial

Joan of Arc Memorial - Statues In The Park (54) -Riverside Park NYC This impressive bronze equestrian sculpture of 15th century French patriot and martyr Joan of Arc (1411–1431) is one of the finest works of art in the Parks collection. Created by the eminent artist and art patron Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973), the piece was dedicated in 1915. Jeanne La Pucelle, later known as Joan of Arc, was a peasant maiden said to have been divinely inspired to help liberate the French from English rule. In New York, a prominent group of citizens formed a Joan of Arc monument committee in 1909. Their efforts coincided with those of a young sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington, to create a sculpture of Joan. Huntington’s version is both heroic and infused with naturalistic detail. For Joan’s armor, she conducted research at the arms and armory division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the refinement of the equine anatomy was based on a horse borrowed from the fire department of her native town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her niece posed astride a barrel, as she modeled the figure, first nude, then in costume. On December 6, 1915, the sculpture was unveiled in an elaborate ceremony, which included a military band and French Ambassador Jean J. Jusserand. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison was among those selected to pull the cord that released the shroud.

Roscoe Conkling

Roscoe Conkling – Statues In The Park (51) Madison Park NYC Bronze full-standing statue of political figure Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888) is by the distinguished artist John Quincy Adams Ward (1840-1910), and dates to 1893. He served as a United States congressman (1859-1863, 1865-67) and senator (1867-1881). Conkling was an ardent supporter of the Grant administration, served on the judiciary committee, helped support passage of a civil rights bill, and played a prominent role in framing the electoral-commission bill of 1877. On March 12, 1888, while on his way to the New York Club at 25th Street, Conkling suffered severe exposure in Union Square, during the famous blizzard which gripped the city on that day. As a result his health rapidly declined, and he died on April 18th, 1888. Five years later friends of Conkling petitioned the Mayor and Park Board to erect a sculpture of him in Union Square. Park officials believed Conkling not of a stature to warrant placement of this work alongside existing sculptures in the park of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and the Marquis de Lafayette, but granted permission at the present location of the work.

Thomas Jefferson

Statues In The Park An outdoor sculpture of a young Thomas Jefferson by William Ordway Partridge is installed outside the School of Journalism on the Columbia University campus in Manhattan, New York. It was modeled in plaster in 1901 and cast in bronze in 1914 by the New York-based foundry Roman Bronze Works. Jefferson is a companion work to Partridge’s statue of Alexander Hamilton, located outside Hamilton Hall.

Thomas Jefferson

Statues In The Park An outdoor sculpture of a young Thomas Jefferson by William Ordway Partridge is installed outside the School of Journalism on the Columbia University campus in Manhattan, New York. It was modeled in plaster in 1901 and cast in bronze in 1914 by the New York-based foundry Roman Bronze Works. Jefferson is a companion work to Partridge’s statue of Alexander Hamilton, located outside Hamilton Hall.

Thomas Jefferson

Statues In The Park An outdoor sculpture of a young Thomas Jefferson by William Ordway Partridge is installed outside the School of Journalism on the Columbia University campus in Manhattan, New York. It was modeled in plaster in 1901 and cast in bronze in 1914 by the New York-based foundry Roman Bronze Works. Jefferson is a companion work to Partridge’s statue of Alexander Hamilton, located outside Hamilton Hall.

General Henry Warner Slocum

Statues In The Park General Slocum is perhaps the best known and most highly regarded Civil War general of the Union buried in Green-Wood. He returned to Brooklyn after the war to practice law. He became an important official in civic affairs and was elected to Congress three times. A dramatic bronze equestrian statue of General Slocum, erected in 1905, by noted sculptor Frederick MacMonnies and architect Sandford White stands near the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza. The scale and prominence of the monument is indicative of Slocum’s stature in the Borough of Brooklyn. Slocum died in Brooklyn in 1894. It is fitting that he found his final resting place in Green-Wood

Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument

Statues in the Park Sculptor William Behrends is a North Carolina-based artist well known for his portraits of professional baseball players. Behrends conception pays tribute to a moment early in Robinson’s professional career as a Dodger, when at a game in Cincinnati he was the target of death threats and racist taunts. Reese, then team captain, publicly supported Robinson by walking over to him and putting his arm around him in a gesture of solidarity and conciliation. It is this touching vignette, with its broader implications for social progress that Behrends captures. The sculpture stands at the center of a circular lawn and perimeter granite walkway designed by Ken Smith, and the base includes inscribed commentary related to the lives and achievements of the athletes. On November 1, 2005 dignitaries, supporters, friends and family—including Robinson and Reese’s widows--gathered in Coney Island at Key Span Park (now MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team) to dedicate this monument honoring sport, friendship and racial equality.

José Bonifacio de Andrada de Silva

Statues In The Park The statue of Andrada is by Brazilian sculptor Jose Otavio Correia Lima (1878-1974), who was selected through a competition sponsored by the Brazilian government, which also contributed $60,000 for the surrounding plaza and black granite base In 1945 Sixth Avenue was renamed Avenue of the Americas, at the suggestion of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1882-1947), to honor Pan-American ideals and principles. This statue, which depicts scholar, scientist, statesman and patriarch of Brazilian independence, Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva (1763-1838), is one of a pantheon of six sculptures of Latin American leaders which overlook the Avenue of the Americas.

John Ericsson

Statues In The Park Battery Park This 1903 statue by Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845–1912) depicts the esteemed Swedish-American engineer and inventor John Ericsson (1803–1889), who helped to revolutionize military-maritime technology with his ironclad warship, the Monitor. In 1836 Ericsson invented and patented the screw propeller, a device that vastly improved steam vessel travel. The Monitor was Ericsson’s response to the Confederacy’s intent in early 1861 to ironclad its warship, the Merrimac. Ericsson built the Monitor at the Continental Iron Works foundry in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; its engine and machinery were fabricated in Greenwich Village at the Delamater Iron Works. The sculpture in Battery Park depicts the bearded Ericsson holding a boat model in his hand.