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.
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
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.
