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.
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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.
Beethoven, the stern-faced, wild-haired German composer, is the subject of two monuments in New York City. He can be found in Central Park (in the middle of the park, about 70th Street) and in Prospect Park’s Concert Grove.
Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770. He studied in Vienna under, among others, Joseph Haydn and quickly established himself as one of the greatest musicians and composers to have ever lived. He died March 26, 1827.
