Statues and Sculptures in New York City
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New York City is the largest city in the United States and one of the world's major global cities. As such, it has many large monuments, statues, sculptures, and other artistic pieces spread throughout its Five Bouroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and The Bronx. For the purposes of this article, the definition a statue will be considered to be "any three dimensional or roughly three dimensional object which shape was generated by an individual or group of individuals with the specific intent to convery artistic, historic, and/or cultural meaning."
| Statue | Sculptor/Designer | Dimensions | Created | Image | Location | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height | Width | Depth | Weight | |||||
| Statue of Liberty | Frédéric Bartholdi/Gustave Eiffel | 151 ft | ~40 ft | ~40 ft | 204 tons | October 28, 1886 |  |
Liberty Island, New York Harbor |
| Cleopatra's Needle | Unknown | 71-77 ft | ~6 ft | ~6 ft | 193-244 tons | January 22, 1881/1450 BC | None | Central Park, Manhattan |
| Bellerophon Taming Pegasus | Jacques Lipchitz | 29' 11" [1][2] | 22' 4" | 9' 10" | N/A | 1964-1967 |  |
Columbia University, Manhattan |
| Civic Fame | Adolph Alexander Weinman | 25 ft | N/A | N/A | N/A | March 1913 |  |
Manhattan Municipal Building, Manhattan |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Half Scale Sculpture, "Bellerophon Taming Pegasus: Large Version, 1964–66." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
- ^ Lipchitz Art Review, "ART REVIEW; Lipchitz, an Ocean Away From His Cubist Years." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
