New York City: Some of my Favourite Public Art pieces..

Echo - by Jaume Plensa [2011]..
44-foot tall..
At Madison Square Park

Knotted Gun - by Carl Fredrik Reutersward..
Gift of Luxembourg to United Nations..
United Nations Plaza..

American Merchant Marines Memorial
Sculpture by Marisol Escobar [ Dedicated 1991]
The bronze sculpture was inspired by an actual photograph taken by Greman attackers as the American marines clung to their sinking vessel..
Battery Park..

Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica..
Installed following the 1987 stock market crash as a symbol of the "strength and power of the American people".. by the sculptor [it was the rtist's idea, not the city's..]
Very interesting story..

"Wisdom, Sound and Light" - by Lee Lawrie
Rockerfeller Center..

Statue of Prometheus - by Paul Manship
Rockerfeller Center..

Statue of Atlas - by Lee Lawrie..
Rockerfeller Center..

The Red Cube - by Isamu Noguchi..
In front of HSBC bldg. on Broadway..

George Washington Memorial - Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward..
Federal Hall, Wall Street..

Venus de Milo - by Jim Dine
Credit Lyonnais Building, 1301 Avenue of the Americas
[53rd Street & 6th Ave], NYC..

Streets of New York City..

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Trip to New York City [Day Five, June 30, 2011]

Trip to Staten Island..

Street performance at Battery Park..

Streets of New York City [Battery Park]

The Bull..

Flatiron Building..

Madison Square Park..
My favourite from the day! Love It!

Rockerfeller Center..

Rockerfeller Center..

Rockerfeller Center..

Streets of New York City..
Love this sculpture. Any information is welcome!

Streets of New York City..

Streets of New York City..

Columbus Circle..

Columbus Circle..

Grand Army Plaza..
Circle of Animals/ Zodiac Heads, by Ai Weiwei..

Grand Army Plaza..
Sherman Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens..

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New York City [Columbus Circle: USS Maine National Monument]

USS Maine National Monument
Sculptor: Attilio Piccirilli (colossal group and figures)
Architect: Harold Van Buren Magonigle
Foundry: Juno Williams Bronze Foundry, Inc., New York
Cast: September 1, 1912
Dedicated: May 30, 1913
Location: Columbus Circle..
Opening on Central Park at the Merchant's Gate entrance.

A national memorial to the 266 killed in the disaster. The names of the sailors who perished on the Maine are inscribed on the pedestal.

Colossal group in gilt bronze

A faux warship and pool

New York City [Columbus Circle: Columbus Monument]

Columbus Monument..
Designed by Sicilian sculptor Gaetano Russo..
It was erected as part of New York's 1892 commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Americas..
Completed: 1905..
Donated to the City of New York by the Italian-American community..
Location: Intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South,West 59th Street.. [Southwest corner of Central Park]
It is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured.

Wikipedia informs..
Completed in 1905 and renovated a century later, the circle was designed by William P. Eno – a businessman who pioneered many early innovations in road safety and traffic control – as part of Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for Central Park, which included a "Grand Circle" at the Merchants' Gate, its most important Eighth Avenue entrance..

The total height of the plinth, pedestal, column and sculpture is 77 feet, enabling passerby to see the monument from miles away on a clear day.

Statue of Columbus..

The pedestal features an angel holding a globe. It is variously called, Genius of Geography, Genius of Columbus, Genius of Discovery..

Bronze relief..
Columbus ship anchored in the Caribbean with men watching as he takes his longboat to the shore..

Bronze relief..
Columbus makes his first landfall..

Bronze relief..
Eagle holding shields of Genoa and the U.S.

Ships representing Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria..

The statue of Columbus in the middle of Columbus Circle, with the Time Warner Center in the background..

Trip to New York City [Day Four: June 29, 2011]

Statue of Liberty..

Statue of Liberty..

The Red Cube - by Isamu Noguchi..
My kind of thing!!

Ground Zero..

George Washington Memorial..
where George Washington took his oath as the First President of the United States of America..

George Washington Memorial..
where George Washington took his oath as the First president of the United States of America..

New York Stock Exchange..

The Bull..

A Stranger..

Crossed the Brooklyn Bridge..

Brooklyn Bridge..

Bowling Green Park... One of New York's oldest parks..

Empire State Building..

Shopping at Macy's..

New York trip..
Day Four [June 29, 2011]
Some highlights of the day. There are many more images, but hardly any time.. More images and more description will be added, when I am back in Chicago!

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