Statues In The Park. Broadway at 106th st. This monument by sculptor Augustus Lukeman (1872–1935) and architect Evarts Tracy commemorates Isidor (1845–1912) and Ida (1849–1912) Straus, who died aboard the R.M.S. Titanic. The memorial fountain was dedicated on April 15, 1915. The biblical quotation above is inscribed on the rear exedra of the Straus Monument, paying tribute to Ida’s decision to remain aboard with her husband rather than save herself by boarding a lifeboat with the women and children. In 1912, the City named this park after the Strauss’s, who had lived in a frame house at 27-47 Broadway, near 105th Street. Public subscriptions of $20,000 were raised to commission this monument. The work consists of a granite curved exedra, a central bronze reclining female figure of Memory (for which the celebrated model Audrey Munson posed), and a reflecting pool. The monument was dedicated three years to the day after the Titanic sank. Augustus Lukeman also sculpted the World War I Memorial statuary in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Statues in the park. Robert Burns (59) Central Park. This statue of Scottish national poet Robert Burns (1759–1796), companion to the 1872 Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) sculpture across Literary Walk, is by Sir John Steell (1804–1891), and was dedicated in 1880.
