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Since its founding in the nineteenth century, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) has remained dedicated to promoting figurative and realistic sculpture. During the years 1919 to 1924, four works commissioned from members of the National Sculpture Society were funded by philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire , including George Rogers Clark (1921 ...
The monument was commissioned by the Art Societies of New York, a coalition of a number of municipal cultural institutions associated with Hunt: the Century Association, the Municipal Art Society (whose first president, in 1892, was Hunt), [2] the Metropolitan Museum of Art (whose main building was designed by Hunt), the Artist Artisans of New ...
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (April 6, 1878 – February 26, 1942) [1] was an American sculptor known for her energetic, small bronze sculptures depicting poor immigrants on New York's City's Lower East Side. As an artist, Eberle had strong beliefs and felt a need for artists to create politically and socially conscious works of art that ...
William Tecumseh Sherman, also known as the Sherman Memorial or Sherman Monument, [1] [2] is a sculpture group honoring William Tecumseh Sherman, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and located at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan, New York.
The statue was unveiled in 1883 to commemorate the first inauguration of George Washington.In 1789, Federal Hall, which served as the capitol building of the United States, stood on the Lower Manhattan site, and Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of that building, approximately where the statue now stands.
Grand Army Plaza (formerly Fifth Avenue Plaza and Central Park Plaza) is a public square at the southeast corner of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South (59th Street).
The National Sculpture Society deeded over a building at 126 East 75th Street to the newly created BAID. [5] Courses began on September 18, 1916 in three departments. The architecture department was associated with a committee from the Society; the sculpture department with a committee from the National Sculpture Society; and the mural department with a committee from the Society of Mural ...
The National Sculpture Society was outraged, and protested the award strongly to the society and the press. [8] Several newspapers also protested the award. The New York Times called the decision "one of the most discreditable events ever in the annals of the public art of the United States". [11]