Statues and sculptures in New York City

New York City is the largest city in the United States and one of the world's major global cities. As such, it has many large monuments, statues, sculptures, and other artistic pieces spread throughout its five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx. Any statue listed here is considered to be "any three-dimensional or roughly three-dimensional object which shape was generated by an individual or group of individuals with the specific intent to convery artistic, historic, and/or cultural meaning."

List

Statues	Sculptor/Designer	Dimensions				Created	Image	Location
		Height	Width	Depth	Weight
Statue of Liberty	Frédéric Bartholdi/Gustave Eiffel	151 ft	~40 ft	~40 ft	204 tons	October 28, 1886		Liberty Island, New York Harbor
Swing Low	Alison Saar	~10 ft	Unknown	Unknown	2 tons	2007		Saint Nicholas Avenue, West 122nd Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue)
Cleopatra's Needle	Unknown	71-77 ft	~6 ft	~6 ft	193-244 tons	January 22, 1881/1450 BC		Central Park, Manhattan
Bellerophon Taming Pegasus	Jacques Lipchitz	29' 11" [1][2]	22' 4"	9' 10"	N/A	1964-1967		Columbia University, Manhattan
Civic Fame	Adolph Alexander Weinman	25 ft	N/A	N/A	N/A	March 1913		Manhattan Municipal Building, Manhattan
Statue of Atlas	Lee Lawrie	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,000 lb (1,800 kg)	1936		Rockefeller Center, directly across 5th Avenue from St. Patrick's Cathedral
Statue of Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian revolutioner, President of Hungary	János Horvai	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1928		113th Street and Riverside Drive
Red Cube	Isamu Noguchi					1968		HSBC Building, Lower Manhattan

Notes

1. Half Scale Sculpture, "Bellerophon Taming Pegasus: Large Version, 1964–66." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
2. Lipchitz Art Review, "Art Review; Lipchitz, an Ocean Away From His Cubist Years." Retrieved on 2006-09-11.

See also

• List of sculptures in Central Park