Outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C.
There are many outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C. In addition to the capital's most famous monuments and memorials, many figures recognized as national heroes (either in government or military) have been posthumously awarded with his or her own statue in a park or public square. Some figures appear on several statues: Abraham Lincoln, for example, has at least three likenesses, including those at the Lincoln Memorial, in Lincoln Park, and the old Superior Court of the District of Columbia. A number of international figures, such as Mohandas Gandhi, have also been immortalized with statues. The Statue of Freedom is a 19½-foot (5.9 m) tall allegorical statue that rests atop the United States Capitol dome.
In addition to the human likenesses, a number of public and private sculptures of animals, objects, and abstractions are spread throughout the city. Two museums on the National Mall include sculpture gardens: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art.
Statues of historical figures
- Archer Alexander at Lincoln Park
- Dante Aligheri in Meridian Hill Park
- José Artigas at 18th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Francis Asbury at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets NW
- John Barry at Franklin Square
- Saint Bernadette at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
- Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial at Lincoln Park
- Sir William Blackstone at Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Equestrian of Simón Bolívar at 18th and C Streets and Virginia Avenue NW
- Simon Bolivar, Libertador at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- James Buchanan at Meridian Hill Park
- Edmund Burke at 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Carroll at 38th and Q Streets NW
- Saint Christopher at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
- Winston Churchill at the British Embassy, 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Edith Clavell in garden of Red Cross National Headquarters, 1730 E Street NW
- Christopher Columbus at Holy Rosary Church, 595 Third Street NW
- Columbus Statue at Columbus Circle
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Louis Daguerre at Seventh and F Streets NW
- Jane Delano at 18th and E Streets NW
- William O. Douglas at 30th and Canal Streets NW
- Albert Einstein at the Albert Einstein Memorial, 21st Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Robert Emmet at 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Ericsson at Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue SW
- David G. Farragut at Farragut Square NW
- Saint Francis of Assisi at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
- Benjamin Franklin at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution at 18th and C Streets NW
- Albert Gallatin at the U.S. Treasury Building's North Portico
- Edward Miner Gallaudet at Gallaudet University
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet at Gallaudet University
- Bernardo de Gálvez at 22nd Street and Virginia Avenue NW
- Mohandas Gandhi at 21st and Q Streets and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- James A. Garfield at Garfield Circle
- Josh Gibson at Nationals Park
- Samuel Gompers at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Ulysses S. Grant on the National Mall
- Nathanael Greene in Stanton Park NE
- Samuel Hahnemann at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Nathan Hale at Ninth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Alexander Hamilton at the U.S. Treasury Building's South Portico
- Winfield Scott Hancock at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Joseph Henry at 10th Street and Jefferson Drive NW
- Frank Howard at Nationals Park
- Cordell Hull at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Queen Isabella of Spain at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Andrew Jackson at Lafayette Square NW
- Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial
- Saint Jerome at the Croatian Embassy, 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Joan of Arc in Meridian Hill Park
- Pope John Paul II at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, 3900 Harewood Road NE
- Walter Johnson at Nationals Park
- John Paul Jones at the John Paul Jones Memorial at 17th Street and Independence Avenue SW
- Benito Juárez at Virginia and New Hampshire Avenues NW
- Francis Scott Key at 36th and M Street NW
- Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
- Tadeusz Kościuszko at Lafayette Square NW
- Michael Kováts de Fabricy at the Hungarian Embassy, 3910 Shoemaker Street NW
- Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette at Lafayette Square NW
- Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial
- Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln Park
- Abraham Lincoln at Fourth and D Streets NW
- Major General John A. Logan at Logan Circle NW
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at M Street and Connecticut Avenue NW
- Martin Luther at 14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Guglielmo Marconi at 16th and Lamont Streets NW
- John Marshall at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk at 22nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- George Mason at the George Mason Memorial in East Potomac Park
- George B. McClellan at Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road NW
- James B. McPherson at McPherson Square NW
- George Meade at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Saint Michael at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
- Pablo Neruda at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Teresa de la Parra at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- John Pershing at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Albert Pike at Third and D Streets NW
- Count Casimir Pulaski at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Alexander Pushkin at 22nd and H Streets NW
- John A. Rawlins at 18th and E Streets NW
- Comte Jean de Rochambeau at Lafayette Square NW
- Eleanor Roosevelt in Room 4 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Eleanor Roosevelt at the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues NW
- Franklin D. Roosevelt in Room 1 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Franklin D. Roosevelt in Room 3 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Theodore Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island
- Winfield Scott at Scott Circle NW
- Father Godfrey Schilling at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
- Olive Risley Seward at Sixth Street and North Carolina Avenue NE
- Alexander Robey Shepherd at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Philip Sheridan at Sheridan Circle NW
- William Tecumseh Sherman at 15th and E Streets NW
- Taras Shevchenko at 22nd, 23rd, and P Streets NW
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben at Lafayette Square NW
- Robert Taft at the Robert A. Taft Memorial, 1st Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- George Henry Thomas at Thomas Circle NW
- José Cecilio del Valle at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Artemas Ward at Ward Circle NW
- George Washington at Washington Circle NW
- George Washington at 20th and H Street NW
- George Washington at the Washington National Cathedral, Cathedral Drive and Wisconsin Avenue NW
- Daniel Webster Memorial at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Wesley at Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts NW
- John Witherspoon at N Street and Connecticut Avenue NW
Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.
See also
References
- ^ Jacob, Kathryn Allamong; Remsberg, Edwin Harlan (1998). Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 85–88. ISBN 9780801858611.
- James M. Goode, The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. (1974)
- Washington D.C. Memorials, a directory of memorials, monuments, statues & other outdoor art in Washington, D.C.
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