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The city's parks have been described as the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States. [1] More than 300 sculptures can be found on the streets and parks of the New York metropolitan area, many of which were created by notable sculptors such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, and John Quincy Adams Ward.
Group of Four Trees is an abstract outdoor sculpture completed in 1972 by the French 20th-century artist Jean Dubuffet.Originally commissioned by the American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, the work measures 43 feet and is installed in the public plaza of 28 Liberty Street (formerly One Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza) between Nassau Street and Pine Street in Financial District ...
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (New York City) Statue of Philip Sheridan (New York City) Statue of Roscoe Conkling; Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Statue of Sun Yat-sen (New York City) Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette (New York City) Statue of Walter Scott (New York City) Statue of William E. Dodge; Statue of William H. Seward (New York City)
The following public artworks have been displayed in Manhattan in New York City: 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Memorial; 5 in 1; 107th Infantry Memorial; Admiral David Glasgow Farragut; Alamo; Alma Mater; Atlas; Ballplayers House Frieze; Bellerophon Taming Pegasus; Bent Propeller; Bethesda Fountain; Burnett Memorial Fountain; Bust of ...
Outdoor sculptures in New York City (2 C, 15 P, 2 F) S. Steel sculptures in New York City (13 P) Stone sculptures in New York City (3 C, 3 P) W.
The gilded bronze statue of the Sherman Monument (dedicated in 1903), sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on a pedestal designed by Charles Follen McKim. [1]New York City's 843-acre (3.41 km 2) Central Park is the home of many works of public art in various media, such as bronze, stone, and tile.
The sculpture is in the Art Deco style of Rockefeller Center. The figure of Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet (14 m) tall. [14] [15] It weighs 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg), [16] and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center. [17] Atlas is depicted carrying the celestial vault on his shoulders.
Effective March 2018, most visitors who do not live in New York state or are not a student from New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut have to pay $25 (~$30.00 in 2023) to enter the museum. [167] The City of New York has reduced funding at the Metropolitan as part of Mayor De Blasio's political effort to increase artistic diversity.