The Basics
About This Site

All pages for statues and sculptors are listed alphabetically (see below); click the plus sign next to the letter to pop out the directory.

An asterisk denotes a bust.

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Statues archived as of today out of 154. (A total of 279 in the five boroughs.) Don’t know what I’m talking about? Start here.

The Statues

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Check the statue index for a complete list of monuments, or use our search engine.

The Sculptors
The Parks
Maybelle
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My other dog, Maybelle.

More pictures of Maybelle can be found here.

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Pigeonholes
Other Resources
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The city maintains an excellent online catalog of the more than 1,000 monuments to be found in city parks.

The just-as excellent Web site forgotten-ny.com has several sections running down the statues of Manhattan.

Dianne Durante, author of the somewhat esoteric “Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan,” maintains an excellent Web site of her essays and other musings on what she calls representational art.

There are 97 busts in the Hall of Fame of Great Americans at Bronx Community College. Because there is already an excellent online tour of the hall, those memorials get only a passing mention here.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum supports an amazing online inventory of sculptures across the country.

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August Saint-Gaudens

August Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin on March 1, 1848, and died on Aug. 3, 1907, in Cornish, N.H.

He was one of the top sculptors in America in the 19th century.

Saint-Gaudens is credited with numerous public monuments. The Smithsonian credits him with close to 500. In New York, he made the statue of Peter Cooper that sits in Cooper Square, the equestrian statue of the Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman at the southeast corner of Central Park and the statue of the Civil War Adm. David Farragut in Madison Square. Elsewhere, Saint-Gaudens sculpted the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston Common and the equestrian statue of the Civil War Gen. John A. Logan in Chicago. He also designed the famous $20 “double-eagle” gold coin.