List of sculptures in Central Park

Since 1863, twenty-nine sculptures^{[note 1]} have been erected within New York City's 843-acre (3.41 km²) Central Park. Most have been donated by individuals or organizations, few by the city itself. While many early statues are of authors and poets along "Literary Walk", and American figures like Daniel Webster and "the Pilgrim", other early works were simply picturesque, like The Hunter and The Falconer. Other notable statues include the statue of Balto, an Egyptian obelisk called "Cleopatra's Needle", Alice in Wonderland, the Duke Ellington Memorial, and the Women's Rights Pioneers Monument.

Selected sculptures[]

Animals[]

• Balto was dedicated to the sled dogs that led several dogsled teams through a snow-storm in the winter of 1925 in order to deliver medicine that would stop a diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska. The sculpture is slightly larger than the real-life dog, and is placed on a rock outcropping on the main path leading north from the Tisch Children's Zoo. The sculpture was created by Frederick George Richard Roth, and placed in the park in 1925. Like so many other monuments in the park, it's made of bronze, and it was donated to the park by the Balto Monument Committee to the City of New York. Under the sculpture, a small plaque can be found, containing the following inscription:

"Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxins six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925. ENDURANCE • FIDELITY • INTELLIGENCE"^[1]

• Eagles and Prey, designed and created by Christophe Fratin, is the oldest known sculpture in any New York City park. It is made of bronze, and was cast in Paris, France in 1850 and was placed in the park in 1863. The sculpture was donated by , who also donated the statue of Daniel Webster, as well as statues in other cities. The monument depicts a goat, wedged accidentally between two rocks, which is about to be devoured by two eagles. Their talons are sunk into the back of the goat as they flap their wings in victory.
• Still Hunt is a bronze sculpture of a crouching cougar waiting to pounce by sculptor Edward Kemeys (1843–1907), installed in the park in 1883. Situated on a rock outcrop on the west side of the East Drive at the edge of the Ramble, the crouching animal has scared many joggers as they climb "Cat Hill" (formally Cedar Hill) and approach this life-size and realistic representation. Unlike the traditional sculptures of other animals in the park that sit on a stone base or pedestal, Kemeys situated his sculpture directly on the rock ledge. Kemeys was so interested in depicting his animals in a realistic mode that he traveled to the western states to see them in their native habitat.

Artists[]

• Bust of the architect Richard Morris Hunt at the Hunt Memorial, along with two other figures sculpted by Daniel Chester French. Flanking the Hunt bust are statuettes, one holding a sculptor's mallet and a palette, representing the allied arts, while the other holds a model for the Administration Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, designed by Hunt. On the perimeter wall of Central Park, Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, opposite the Frick Collection, which was built on the site of the Lenox Library, also designed by architect Hunt. The granite and marble Hunt memorial was designed by American architect Bruce Price.
• Tucked into a dead end triangle of Central Park at East 96th/97th Street, the statue of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen^[2] was first dedicated in 1894 and is the only statue of an artist displayed in any New York City park.

Fictional characters[]

• One large sculpture depicts Alice, from Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The statue is located on East 74th Street on the north side of Central Park's Conservatory Water. Alice is pictured sitting on a giant mushroom reaching toward a pocket watch held by the White Rabbit. Peering over her shoulder is the Cheshire Cat, flanked on one side by the Dormouse, and on the other by Mad Hatter, who in contrast to the calm Alice looks ready to laugh out loud at any moment. Publisher and philanthropist George T. Delacorte Jr. ordered the sculpture from José de Creeft, in honor of Delacorte's late wife, Margarita, and to the enjoyment of the children of New York. Unveiled in 1959, de Creeft's sculpture tries to follow John Tenniel's whimsical Victorian illustrations from the first edition of the book. According to various sources, Alice is said to look like de Creeft's daughter Donna. The Alice in Wonderland project's architects and designers were Hideo Sasaki and Fernando Texidor, who inserted some plaques with inscriptions from the book in the terrace around the sculpture. Margarita's favorite poem, "Jabberwocky" is also included; chiseled in a granite circle surrounding the sculpture:

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe"

The design of the sculpture attracts many children who want to climb its many levels, resulting in the bronze's glowing patina, polished by thousands of tiny hands over the years since the sculpture was unveiled. It was cast at Modern Art Foundry in Astoria Queens. The sculpture was in the music video of Slick Ricks Children's Story.

• The Burnett Memorial Fountain, dedicated to the author Frances Hodgson Burnett, was placed in the Conservatory Garden when it reopened in 1936, a donation by the ad hoc Children's Garden Building Committee. It was designed and created by Bessie Potter Vonnoh between 1926 and 1936. When Frances Hodgson Burnett died in 1924, some of her friends wanted to honor her memory by creating a storytelling area in Central Park. They chose the Conservatory Garden's south garden, at 104th Street and Fifth Avenue, as the site for the memorial. It is believed that the two figures, a reclining boy playing the flute and the young girl holding the bowl, represent Mary and Dickon, the main characters from The Secret Garden.

Historical figures[]

• The equestrian sculpture of Simón Bolívar was originally sited on the rock outcropping between 82nd and 83rd Streets overlooking Central Park West, where the Bolívar Hotel, once facing it, commemorates its location. After Sixth Avenue was renamed Avenue of the Americas in 1945, the sculpture was relocated in the 1950s to be adjacent to those of fellow Latin American revolutionary leaders José de San Martín and José Martí at the head of the Avenue of the Americas.
• In 1892, the statue of Christopher Columbus was donated to Central Park by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of his arrival in the Americas. The statue replicates one made by Jeronimo Suñol in 1892,^[3] located at the Plaza de Colon, in Madrid. The New York version was placed in the park in 1894 at the foot of the Mall, and is today one of two monuments of Columbus found in the park's environs, the other being the statue surmounting the column at Columbus Circle. The sculpture depicts the explorer standing with outstretched arms, looking towards the heavens in gratitude for his successful voyage.
• The standing sculpture of Alexander Hamilton standing in a grove of apple trees and crabapples west of the East Drive behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art was "presented by John C. Hamilton 1880", according to the inscription on its granite base. The donor was the son of Hamilton. It was sculpted by Carl Conrads.
• The King Jagiello Monument is an equestrian statue of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, holding over his head two crossed swords, is the largest sculpture in Central Park. As a result of the outbreak of the World War II, the monument stayed in New York; in July 1945 it was presented to the City of New York by the King Jagiello Monument Committee and permanently placed in Central Park with the cooperation of the last pre-Communist consul of Poland in New York, Kazimierz Krasicki.^[4] The King Jagiełło monument is situated on the east side of the Turtle Pond, across from Belvedere Castle and southeast of the Great Lawn.^[5]
• The bronze standing figure of Daniel Webster by Thomas Ball stands on a high granite plinth at the confluence of two carriage drives near the foot of Strawberry Fields Memorial, at approximately 72nd Street. Ball had circulated many examples of statuettes of this model. The over-lifesize bronze, cast in Munich, was presented by Gordon W. Burnham in 1876. The plinth bears as a bronze legend Webster's famous phrases LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE. .^[6]

Scientists[]

• The bronze bust of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt by Gustav Blaeser (1813–1874) has stood since 1981 on a granite pedestal at Naturalists' Gate, 77th Street and Central Park West, opposite the corner of the American Museum of Natural History. The monument, donated by an ad hoc association of German-Americans, the Humboldt Memorial Association, was dedicated at its original location at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue on September 14, 1869.^[7] Blaeser, who knew Humboldt, was said to have worked in part from Humboldt's death mask. The bronze was cast by Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, Braunschweig.
• The statue of Dr James Marion Sims

War Memorials[]

• The 107th Infantry Memorial is dedicated to the men who served in the 107th New York Infantry Regiment, originally Seventh Regiment of New York, during World War I. The regiment was, as its name implies, stationed in New York, and consisted of males mainly from this region. In 1917, the National Guard's 7th New York Infantry Registry Division. While in France, they saw heavy action, and at the end of the war in November 1918, of the 3,700 men originally in the regiment, 580 men were killed and 1,487 wounded, with four of the regiment's soldiers being awarded the Medal of Honor. The memorial depicts seven men; the one to the far right carrying two Mills bombs, while supporting the wounded soldier next to him. To his right another infantryman (depicting Robert Russell Bennett, a 107 combat veteran who was asked by the artist to model for the statue along with 6 other actual 107 veterans of the Somme) rushes towards the enemy positions, while the helmet less squad leader and another soldier are approaching the enemy with bayonets fixed. To the far left, one soldier is holding a mortally wounded soldier, keeping him on his feet. The bronze memorial was donated by 7th–107th Memorial Committee, and was designed and sculpted by , who served in the 107th IR as a sergeant in World War I. The monument was first conceived about 1920, was made in 1926–1927 and was placed in the park and unveiled in 1927, near the perimeter wall at Fifth Avenue and 67th Street.

Writers and poets[]

• Hans Christian Andersen, the famous Danish fairy-tale writer, his most notable work being "The Ugly Duckling". His statue features him sitting and reading to a stray duck. The 1956 work by sculptor Georg J. Lober was constructed with contributions from Danish and American schoolchildren.^[8] It was cast at Modern Art Foundry, Astoria, Queens, NY.
• Poet Robert Burns is sculpted in bronze by Sir John Steell, the eminent Victorian sculptor. It was unveiled in Central Park, New York in 1880. It was intended as a companion statue to Sir Walter Scott by the same sculptor, erected some eight years previously.
• Fitz-Greene Halleck has been described as the least known literary figure today on the "Literary Walk," despite being the only person to have a memorial unveiled by the then-president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877, ten years after his death in November 1867. The monument was funded by the use of public subscription, and had a long list of prominent guests and speakers at the dedication and unveiling of the monument, among them the president's cabinet, General of the Army William T.Sherman, the poets Bayard Taylor, George Henry Boker and William Cullen Bryant, as well as other notable citizens. The monument is made in bronze by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, and is placed near the Literary Walk and The Mall. The monument has been thoroughly refurbished by The Central Park Conservancy, first by hot waxing it in 1983, and then again in 1992, as well as in 1999, when it was dewaxed, pressure-washed and repatinated, and then protected by a coating of a corrosion-inhibiting lacquer.
• William Shakespeare, a bronze statue on a stone pedestal, located to the south of the mall, southeast of Sheep's Meadow; this sculpture was erected with funds raised from a benefit performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on November 25, 1864, at The Winter Garden Theatre, in a performance by Edwin Booth, Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. and their younger brother, John Wilkes Booth. John Quincy Adams Ward sculpted the work. Ward was arguably the dean of American sculpture at the time, and he is the source of more public sculpture in NYC than any other artist. This is the artist's second of four works in Central Park.

Other sculptures[]

• The Angel of the Waters / Bethesda Fountain (unveiled in 1873) was not in the original "Greensward Plan", developed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux; the architectural middle of the park was called "The Water Terrace", for its placement beside The Lake, but the area became known as Bethesda Terrace after the fountain was unveiled in 1873. At the unveiling ceremony, the artist's brochure quoted a Biblical verse from the Gospel of St. John: Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called… Bethesda…whoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. The fountain was designed and created by Emma Stebbins, who became the first woman to receive a sculptural commission in New York City when she was commissioned to create this fountain. It was designed and created in 1868, but wasn't unveiled until 1873, when the park was officially completed. In 1988. the Central Park Conservancy cleaned, repatinated, and sealed the fountain with a protective coating, and it is washed and waxed annually in order to preserve it. The fountain can be found in the middle of the park, on the north side of 72nd Street.^{[citation needed]}
• Indian Hunter (1866) by John Quincy Adams Ward^[9] was shown at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 and made the sculptor's reputation. It was the first sculpture by an American sculptor to be sited in Central Park, in 1869; it stands on the pathway west of The Mall, between the Mall and Sheep Meadow, at approximately 66th Street.^[10]
• The Untermyer Fountain in Conservatory Garden was donated by the family of Samuel Untermyer in 1947. The bronze figures, Three Dancing Maidens by Walter Schott (1861–1938), were executed in Germany about 1910.^[11]
• The Women's Rights Pioneers Monument, a 2020 sculpture by Meredith Bergmann of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, is the first statue in Central Park to depict real women. Bergmann's original design portrayed only Anthony and Stanton and included a scroll naming and quoting 22 suffrage leaders, including Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell.^[12][13]

In addition, temporary exhibitions of sculpture are mounted in the Doris Freedman Plaza, a concrete and cobblestone area located just outside the southeast entrance walkway to the park, behind the Sherman Monument.

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Sculptures in Central Park

Name	Image	Location / GPS Coordinates	Designers	Year	IAS number	Notes
7th Regiment Memorial Civil War Memorial		West Drive, opposite the Sheep Meadow 40°46′26″N 73°58′35″W / 40.773757°N 73.976403°W / 40.773757; -73.976403 (7th Regiment Memorial)	John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor Richard Morris Hunt, architect Robert Wood & Company, foundry	Commissioned 1869 Dedicated 1874	87870170
107th Infantry Memorial 7th Regiment New York 107th United States Infantry World War I Memorial		East 67th Street & Fifth Avenue 40°46′09″N 73°58′10″W / 40.76927°N 73.96937°W / 40.76927; -73.96937 (107th Infantry Memorial)	Karl Illava, sculptor Rogers & Haneman, architects Fonderia G. Vignali, founder Davis & Gallanger, contractors	Commissioned 1920 Dedicated 1927	76003536
Alice in Wonderland Margaret Delacorte Memorial		Central Park Conservatory Pond 40°46′30″N 73°58′00″W / 40.77504°N 73.966543°W / 40.77504; -73.966543 (Alice in Wonderland Statue)	José de Creeft, sculptor Hideo Sasaki, landscape architect Modern Art Foundry Ferando Texidor, designer	1959	87870163
Hans Christian Andersen		Central Park Lake, opposite East 74th Street 40°46′28″N 73°58′04″W / 40.7744306°N 73.9677972°W / 40.7744306; -73.9677972 (Hans Christian Andersen)	Georg J. Lober, sculptor Modern Art Foundry Otto Frederick Langman, designer	1956	87870162
Balto[1]		Central Park East Drive & East 66th Street 40°46′12″N 73°58′16″W / 40.769959°N 73.971022°W / 40.769959; -73.971022 (Balto Statue)	Frederick Roth, sculptor Roman Bronze Works, foundry	1925	87870159
Beethoven Memorial Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven		The Mall 40°46′22″N 73°58′19″W / 40.772866°N 73.971872°W / 40.772866; -73.971872 (Beethoven Memorial)	Henry Baerer, sculptor George Fischer & Brother Bronze Works	1884	76003467
Belvedere Castle		Belvedere Castle 40°46′46″N 73°58′09″W / 40.779447°N 73.96906°W / 40.779447; -73.96906 (Belvedere Castle)	Jacob Wrey Mould, architectural sculpture Calvert Vaux, architect	1869		Cockatrice Transom
Bethesda Fountain		Between Bethesda Terrace and The Lake 40°46′27″N 73°58′16″W / 40.774111°N 73.971139°W / 40.774111; -73.971139 (Bethesda Fountain)	Emma Stebbins, sculptor (Angel & Cherubs) Royal Foundry (Munich, Germany) Jacob Wrey Mould, architectural sculpture Calvert Vaux, architect	Commissioned 1868 Dedicated 1873	76002831	Angel of the Waters and Cherubs
Bethesda Terrace		Terrace Drive 40°46′26″N 73°58′16″W / 40.773949°N 73.9711001°W / 40.773949; -73.9711001 (Bethesda Terrace)	Jacob Wrey Mould, architectural sculpture Calvert Vaux, architect			Looking south "Summer" relief panel
Simón Bolívar Monument Equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar		Bolívar Plaza, Central Park South (59th Street) & Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) 40°45′56″N 73°58′33″W / 40.765689°N 73.975792°W / 40.765689; -73.975792 (Simón Bolívar Statue)	Sally James Farnham, sculptor Roman Bronze Works, foundry	Commissioned 1916 Cast 1920 Dedicated 1921 Relocated 1951	76003468	In its original location at 83rd Street & Central Park West.
Arthur Brisbane Memorial Bench		5th Avenue & 101st Street 40°47′28″N 73°57′13″W / 40.791183°N 73.953557°W / 40.791183; -73.953557 (Arthur Brisbane Bench)	Richmond Barthé, sculptor Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, architects	Installed 1939	76003469
Burnett Memorial Fountain Mary and Dickon The Secret Garden		Conservatory Garden 40°47′35″N 73°57′10″W / 40.793056°N 73.952778°W / 40.793056; -73.952778 (Burnett Memorial Fountain)	Bessie Potter Vonnoh, sculptor Aymar Embury II, architect Roman Bronze Works, foundry	Commissioned 1926 Dedicated 1937	76003471	The fountain honors children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett, and features her characters, Mary and Dickon, from The Secret Garden (1910).
Robert Burns Memorial		Literary Walk, south end of The Mall 40°46′12″N 73°58′21″W / 40.770108°N 73.972570°W / 40.770108; -73.972570 (Robert Burns Memorial)	Sir John Steell, sculptor	Commissioned 1873 Dedicated 1880	76003472
Central Park Boathouse Dedicatory Sculpture The Rowers		Central Park Boathouse 40°46′31″N 73°58′08″W / 40.775278°N 73.96875°W / 40.775278; -73.96875 (Central Park Boathouse)	Irwin Glusker, sculptor	Commissioned 1968 Dedicated 1971	87870241
Cherry Hill Fountain		Wagner Cove, south of The Lake 40°46′29″N 73°58′22″W / 40.774698°N 73.972712°W / 40.774698; -73.972712 (Cherry Hill Fountain)	Jacob Wrey Mould, architectural sculpture
City Employees Memorial Flagpole		The Mall, north side 40°46′23″N 73°58′19″W / 40.773056°N 73.971944°W / 40.773056; -73.971944 (City Employees Memorial Flagpole)	Georg J. Lober, sculptor Otto Frederick Langman, architect	1928	76003476
Cleopatra's Needle Egyptian Obelisque		82nd Street, west of Metropolitan Museum of Art 40°46′47″N 73°57′56″W / 40.779638°N 73.965451°W / 40.779638; -73.965451 (Cleopatra's Needle)	Erected by Thutmose III at the at Heliopolis.	Carved 1500–1600 B.C. Gift of Egypt to the United States 1869 Dedicated 1881	87870165
Christopher Columbus		East Drive, south of The Mall 40°46′12″N 73°58′22″W / 40.769899°N 73.972791°W / 40.769899; -73.972791 (Christopher Columbus Statue)	Jeronimo Suñol, sculptor Napoleon LeBrun, architect Federico Masriera, foundry	Original 1886 (Madrid) Cast 1892 Dedicated 1894	87870160
Conservatory Garden Center Fountain		5th Avenue & 105th Street 40°47′38″N 73°57′10″W / 40.793892°N 73.952824°W / 40.793892; -73.952824 (Conservatory Garden Center Fountain)		1927
Dancing Goat Fountain		Central Park Zoo, north of the Sea Lion Pool 40°46′05″N 73°58′18″W / 40.768185°N 73.971568°W / 40.768185; -73.971568 (Dancing Goat Fountain)	Frederick Roth, sculptor Roman Bronze Works	Cast c. 1935 Installed 1937	76003481
Decorative reliefs (15 carved limestone panels of animals)		Central Park Zoo	Frederick Roth, sculptor	c. 1934	76003538
Delacorte Clock Two monkeys (ringing the bell) Penguin (with drum) Hippopotamus (with violin) Bear (with tambourine) Elephant (with concertina) Goat (with Pan pipes) Kangaroo (with horn) Baby Kangaroo (with small clarinet)		Children's Zoo 40°46′05″N 73°58′16″W / 40.768056°N 73.971111°W / 40.768056; -73.971111 (Delacorte Musical Clock)	Andrea Spadini, sculptor Edward Coe Embury, architect Fernando Texidor, designer	Cast 1964 Installed 1965	87870158	The monkeys atop the tower ring the bell on the hour. The lower 6 animals twirl and parade around the tower on the hour and half-hour.
Frederick Douglass Memorial (plaza, statue & fountain)		Frederick Douglass Circle, Central Park North (110th Street) & Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue) 40°48′02″N 73°57′29″W / 40.800583°N 73.958167°W / 40.800583; -73.958167 (Frederick Douglass Circle)	Gabriel Koren, sculptor Algernon Miller, designer Quennell Rothschild & Partners, architects Polich-Tallix, foundry	Plaza & fountain 2005 Statue cast 2010 Dedicated 2011
Daniel Draper Plaque		Belvedere Castle 40°46′46″N 73°58′09″W / 40.779447°N 73.96906°W / 40.779447; -73.96906 (Belvedere Castle)	Anton Brandts Subiesky, sculptor	Installed 1935	76003487
S. Rankin Drew Memorial Tree Marker		72nd Street, west of The Mall 40°46′25″N 73°58′20″W / 40.773632°N 73.972120°W / 40.773632; -73.972120 (S. Rankin Drew Marker)	Unknown sculptor	Installed 1928	76003488	Drew was a silent movie actor/director who died in World War I. The American Legion planted an oak tree in his memory in 1920, and installed the marker in 1928.
Eagles Granite Eagles		Central Park Zoo	Rochette and Parzini, sculptors	Installed 1941	76003491	Eight eagle statues salvaged from the First Avenue Bridge in Brooklyn, NY.
Eagles and Prey		Center Drive, opposite Lilac Walk 40°46′21″N 73°58′21″W / 40.772474°N 73.972484°W / 40.772474; -73.972484 (Eagles and Prey)	Christophe Fratin, sculptor	Cast 1850 Installed 1863	76003492
Duke Ellington Memorial		Duke Ellington Circle, 5th Avenue & 110th Street 40°47′48″N 73°56′57″W / 40.79675°N 73.949028°W / 40.79675; -73.949028 (Duke Ellington (Graham))	Robert Graham, sculptor	Proposed 1979 Dedicated 1997		First New York City monument to an African-American artist.[14]
The Falconer		West 72nd Street 40°46′27″N 73°58′26″W / 40.774111°N 73.973806°W / 40.774111; -73.973806 (The Falconer)	George Blackall Simonds, sculptor Clemente Papi, foundry	Cast 1871 Installed 1875	76003496
Fort Clinton Memorial McGowan's Pass Monument		Between 5th Avenue & East Drive, opposite 107th Street 40°47′43″N 73°57′11″W / 40.7951434°N 73.9529624°W / 40.7951434; -73.9529624 (Fort Clinton (Central Park))	William Welles Bosworth, designer	1906	76002752	Fort Clinton was built during the War of 1812 as part of New York City's defenses, and was later demolished. A mortar (cannon barrel) was unearthed at the site in the early 1900s. Bosworth designed a pedestal for the mortar and a memorial plaque.[15]
Friedel Memorial Drinking Fountain		Runners Gate, 90th Street & 5th Avenue	Mark Rabinowitz, sculptor	Dedicated 1992
Andrew Haswell Green Memorial Bench		East Drive, east of The Ravine 40°47′42″N 73°57′15″W / 40.795126°N 73.954291°W / 40.795126; -73.954291 (Andrew Haswell Green Bench)		1929
Group of Bears		Pat Hoffman Friedman Playground, 79th Street & 5th Avenue 40°46′39″N 73°57′50″W / 40.7775°N 73.963967°W / 40.7775; -73.963967 (Group of Bears)	Paul Manship, sculptor Paul King Foundry	Original 1932 Cast 1989	NY000142
Fitz-Greene Halleck Memorial		The Mall 40°46′15″N 73°58′20″W / 40.770740°N 73.972117°W / 40.770740; -73.972117 (Fitz-Greene Halleck Memorial)	James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, sculptor	Cast 1876 Dedicated 1877	76003506
Alexander Hamilton		East Drive, west of Metropolitan Museum of Art 40°46′51″N 73°57′54″W / 40.780807°N 73.964946°W / 40.780807; -73.964946 (Alexander Hamilton (Conrads))	Carl Conrads, sculptor New England Granite Works	Dedicated 1880	76002763
Victor Herbert Memorial Bust of Victor Herbert		The Mall, opposite the bandstand 40°46′22″N 73°58′19″W / 40.772847°N 73.972061°W / 40.772847; -73.972061 (Victor Herbert Memorial)	Edmond Thomas Quinn, sculptor	1927	76003508
Honey Bear Fountain Dancing Bear		Central Park Zoo, north of the Delacorte Musical Clock 40°46′06″N 73°58′16″W / 40.768248°N 73.971139°W / 40.768248; -73.971139 (Honey Bear)	Frederick Roth, sculptor Roman Bronze Works	Cast c. 1935 Dedicated 1937	76003480
Humboldt Monument Bust of Alexander von Humboldt		Explorers Gate, West 77th Street & Central Park West 40°46′46″N 73°58′24″W / 40.779476°N 73.973285°W / 40.779476; -73.973285 (Alexander von Humboldt)	Gustav Blaeser, sculptor Georg Howaldt & Son, foundry	1869	76008978
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial		5th Avenue & 70th Street 40°46′17″N 73°58′04″W / 40.7715°N 73.9679°W / 40.7715; -73.9679 (Richard Morris Hunt Memorial)	Daniel Chester French, sculptor Bruce Price, architect Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, foundry	Commissioned 1896 Dedicated 1898 Allegorical figures 1900	76006062	Bust of Richard Morris Hunt The exedra is flanked by two allegorical figures, Architecture and Painting and Sculpture.
Waldo Hutchins Memorial Bench		72nd Street & 5th Avenue 40°46′22″N 73°58′02″W / 40.772778°N 73.967222°W / 40.772778; -73.967222 (Waldo Hutchins Bench)	Eric Gugler, architect Paul Manship, sculptor	Installed 1932	76003511	There is a small sundial at the center of the bench.
Indian Hunter		West 66th Street, west of The Mall 40°46′14″N 73°58′23″W / 40.770417°N 73.973133°W / 40.770417; -73.973133 (Indian Hunter (Ward))	John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor L. A. Amouroux, foundry	Cast 1866 Dedicated 1869	76003513	First work by an American sculptor installed in Central Park.
King Jagiello Monument		79th Street, east of the Turtle Pond 40°46′44″N 73°58′00″W / 40.778889°N 73.966667°W / 40.778889; -73.966667 (King Jagiello Monument)	Stanislaw Kazimierz Ostrowski, sculptor Aymar Embury II, architect	Modeled 1908–09 Cast 1939 Installed 1945	87870164	The equestrian statue was cast for the Polish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Knights of Pythias Memorial World War I Memorial		Memorial Grove
Fred Lebow		Upper Reservoir Jogging Track, 90th Street & East Central Park Drive 40°47′03″N 73°57′33″W / 40.784064°N 73.959127°W / 40.784064; -73.959127 (Fred Lebow Statue)	Jesus Ygnacio Dominguez, sculptor	Cast 1994		Lebow was a founder of the New York City Marathon, and ran in it until age 60. The posthumous statue was installed beside the Upper Reservoir Jogging Track in 2001, but each November it is moved near to the marathon's finish line.
Lehman Gates		Children's Zoo, 72nd Street Entrance 40°46′07″N 73°58′15″W / 40.768611°N 73.970972°W / 40.768611; -73.970972 (Lehman Gates)	Paul Manship, sculptor Roman Bronze Works, foundry	Cast 1960 Dedicated 1961	76007112
Levy Memorial Gates		Pat Hoffman Friedman Playground 5th Avenue & 79th Street	Walter Baretta, sculptor	Cast c. 1957 Dedicated 1958	87870242
Loeb Memorial Fountain Sophie Irene Loeb Drinking Fountain		5th Avenue, between 76th & 77th Streets 40°46′33″N 73°57′54″W / 40.775781°N 73.965113°W / 40.775781; -73.965113 (Loeb Memorial Fountain)	Frederick Roth, sculptor C. Dale Badgeley, architect	1936	76003525	The central pier features characters from Alice in Wonderland.
Lombard Lamp		East Drive & 60th Street	Carl Borner, sculptor	Original 1869 Cast c. 1979		Gift from the City of Hamburg, Germany.
José Martí Monument Equestrian Statue of José Martí		Central Park South (59th Street) & Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) 40°45′58″N 73°58′34″W / 40.766043°N 73.976156°W / 40.766043; -73.976156 (José Martí Statue)	Anna Hyatt Huntington, sculptor Domico Scoma Bronze Works, foundry	Cast 1959 Dedicated 1965	87870168
Martin Memorial Birdbath		Central Park Zoo	Oronzio Maldarelli, sculptor	Dedicated 1942
Bust of Giuseppe Mazzini		Sheep Meadow, West Drive, near 67th Street 40°46′22″N 73°58′36″W / 40.772867°N 73.976667°W / 40.772867; -73.976667 (Bust of Giuseppe Mazzini)	Giovanni Turini, sculptor F. Matriati, architect George Fischer & Brother, foundry	1878	87870169	William Cullen Bryant delivered an address at the sculpture's unveiling.[16]
John Purroy Mitchel Memorial		Engineers Gate, East 90th Street & 5th Avenue 40°47′04″N 73°57′33″W / 40.784367°N 73.959167°W / 40.784367; -73.959167 (John Purroy Mitchel Memorial)	Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor Thomas Hastings, architect Donn Barber, architect.	Commissioned 1921 Dedicated 1928	76003532	Mitchel was the youngest mayor in New York City history. After losing re-election, he enlisted in World War I, and died in a training accident.
Thomas Moore Memorial Bust of Thomas Moore		East Drive, between 60th & 61st Streets 40°45′56″N 73°58′24″W / 40.765556°N 73.973333°W / 40.765556; -73.973333 (Thomas Moore Memorial)	John G. Draddy, sculptor P. E. Guerin, foundry	Dedicated 1879	76002891
Samuel Finley Breese Morse Memorial		72nd Street & 5th Avenue 40°46′21″N 73°58′02″W / 40.7725°N 73.967306°W / 40.7725; -73.967306 (Samuel Morse Memorial)	Byron M. Pickett, sculptor M. J. Power Bronze Founder	Commissioned 1870 Dedicated 1871	76003533
Mother Goose		Entrance to Rumsey Play Field 40°46′21″N 73°58′10″W / 40.772439°N 73.969504°W / 40.772439; -73.969504 (Mother Goose)	Frederick Roth, sculptor	1938	76003534
William Church Osborn Memorial Gates		Entrance to Ancient Playground, 5th Avenue, between 84th & 85th Streets 40°46′51″N 73°57′40″W / 40.780728°N 73.961146°W / 40.780728; -73.961146 (Osborn Memorial Gates)	Paul Manship, sculptor Aymar Embury II, architect	Cast 1952 Dedicated 1953	76007113
The Pilgrim Pilgrim Fathers Monument		Pilgrim Hill, 72nd Street 40°46′23″N 73°58′07″W / 40.77315°N 73.968553°W / 40.77315; -73.968553 (The Pilgrim (Ward))	John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor Richard Morris Hunt, architect Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, foundry	Cast 1884 Dedicated 1885	87870161
Pulitzer Fountain "Fountain of Abundance" Pomona		Grand Army Plaza 59th Street & 5th Avenue 40°45′51″N 73°58′25″W / 40.76403°N 73.97361°W / 40.76403; -73.97361 (Pulitzer Fountain)	Karl Bitter, sculptor Thomas Hastings, architect Karl Gruppe, sculptor Orazio Piccirilli, sculptor (horns of plenty) Isidore Konti, carver	Commissioned 1898 Dedicated 1916	76003537	Pomona Following Bitter's death in 1915, Gruppe and Konti completed the Pomona statue.
Romeo and Juliet		Delacorte Theater 40°46′50″N 73°58′08″W / 40.78056°N 73.968754°W / 40.78056; -73.968754 (Romeo and Juliet (Hebald))	Milton Hebald, sculptor Spartaco Dionesi Foundry	Cast 1978 Installed 1978	87870172
Rumsey Tablet		Gateway to Mary Harriman Rumsey Playground 40°46′21″N 73°58′11″W / 40.772435°N 73.969588°W / 40.772435; -73.969588 (Rumsey Tablet)	Unknown sculptor	Installed 1937	76003539
Equestrian statue of José de San Martín		Central Park South (59th Street) & Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) 40°45′58″N 73°58′36″W / 40.7660146°N 73.9765739°W / 40.7660146; -73.9765739 (José de San Martín Statue)	Anthony de Francisci, sculptor Radelli y Gemelli, foundry Clarke, Rapuano and Holleran, landscape architects	Original 1862 Cast c. 1940–1950 Dedicated 1951	87870167	A copy after Louis Joseph Daumas's 1862 sculpture in Buenos Aires.
Schiller Memorial Bust of Friedrich von Schiller		Poets Walk, north side of The Mall 40°46′23″N 73°58′19″W / 40.773194°N 73.971831°W / 40.773194; -73.971831 (Friedrich von Schiller Memorial)	Charles Ludwig Richter, sculptor	Dedicated 1859	76003543	First sculpture installed in Central Park.
Sir Walter Scott Memorial		Literary Walk, south end of The Mall 40°46′12″N 73°58′21″W / 40.770071°N 73.972422°W / 40.770071; -73.972422 (Sir Walter Scott Memorial)	Sir John Steell, sculptor	Original c. 1845 Cast 1871 Dedicated 1872	76003545
William Shakespeare		67th Street & The Mall 40°46′12″N 73°58′21″W / 40.769862°N 73.972474°W / 40.769862; -73.972474 (William Shakespeare (Ward))	John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor Robert Wood & Company, foundry Jacob Wrey Mould, designer (of base) Henry Parry, carver (of base)	Proposed 1864 Commissioned 1870 Cast 1871 Dedicated 1872	65700009	Commemorates the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth – April 23, 1564.
Sherman Monument William Tecumseh Sherman		Grand Army Plaza 5th Avenue & Central Park South 40°45′53″N 73°58′24″W / 40.76472°N 73.97322°W / 40.76472; -73.97322 (Sherman Monument)	Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor A. Phimister Proctor, sculptor (horse) Charles Follen McKim, architect Norcross Brothers, contractor	Commissioned 1892 Dedicated 1903	76003547
Sisters of Charity Plaque		West of 106th Street 40°47′40″N 73°57′09″W / 40.7944936°N 73.952375°W / 40.7944936; -73.952375 (Plaque, Sisters of Charity)		Dedicated 1995		Mount St. Vincent Academy/Central Park Hospital Commemorates Mount St. Vincent Academy, a convent and school run by the Sisters of Charity of New York. The building was converted into a military hospital during the Civil War, and demolished in 1917.
Snowbabies		Gateway to Mary Harriman Rumsey Playground 40°46′21″N 73°58′11″W / 40.772435°N 73.969588°W / 40.772435; -73.969588 (Snowbabies)	Victor Frisch, sculptor	Installed 1938	76003550
William T. Stead Memorial		5th Avenue & 91st Street 40°47′05″N 73°57′29″W / 40.784753°N 73.958117°W / 40.784753; -73.958117 (William T. Stead Memorial)	George Frampton, sculptor Carrere & Hastings, architects	Original 1913 Dedicated 1920	76003551	Stead was a British journalist who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This is a copy of the 1913 Stead Memorial in London.
The Still Hunt The Panther		East Drive 40°46′36″N 73°58′02″W / 40.776741°N 73.967304°W / 40.776741; -73.967304 (Still Hunt Statue)	Edward Kemeys, sculptor M. J. Power Bronze Founder	Commissioned 1881 Installed 1883	76003552
Charles B. Stover Memorial Seat "Whisper Bench"		Shakespeare Garden 40°46′48″N 73°58′10″W / 40.780022°N 73.969337°W / 40.780022; -73.969337 (Charles B. Stover Bench)	Unknown sculptor	Installed 1935 Dedicated 1936	76003553
Strawberry Fields Memorial John Lennon Memorial		West 72nd Street & Terrace Drive 40°46′33″N 73°58′31″W / 40.775735°N 73.975205°W / 40.775735; -73.975205 (Strawberry Fields (memorial))	Bruce Kelley, landscape architect	Dedicated 1985		The "Imagine" mosaic was created by stone masons in Naples, Italy, who donated it to Central Park.
Sundial		Shakespeare Garden	Walter Beretta, sculptor	1945
The Tempest (on left) Prospero and Miranda		Delacorte Theater 40°46′50″N 73°58′07″W / 40.780531°N 73.968626°W / 40.780531; -73.968626 (The Tempest (Hebald))	Milton Hebald, sculptor A. Ottavino Corp., foundry	Commissioned 1966 Dedicated 1973	87870171
Thorvaldsen Memorial Bertel Thorvaldsen Statue Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen		East side, between 96th & 97th Streets 40°47′19″N 73°57′22″W / 40.788608°N 73.956005°W / 40.788608; -73.956005 (Thorvaldsen Memorial)		Cast 1892 Dedicated 1894	76003556	A bronze copy after the Danish sculptor's 1839 self-portrait (Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen). Commissioned by the United Danes, Norwegians and Swedes of New York and Brooklyn to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Thorvaldsen's death.
Tigress and Cubs		Central Park Zoo 40°46′03″N 73°58′21″W / 40.767389°N 73.972448°W / 40.767389; -73.972448 (Tigress and Cubs Statue)	Auguste Cain, sculptor F. Barbedienne, foundry	Cast 1866 Dedicated 1867	76003557
Untermyer Fountain Three Dancing Maidens (cast after 1910 original) Fountain of the Three Dancing Maidens		Conservatory Garden 40°47′39″N 73°57′07″W / 40.79426°N 73.95195°W / 40.79426; -73.95195 (Untermyer Fountain)	Walter Schott, sculptor H. Gladenbeck & Son, foundry	Cast c. 1910 Dedicated 1947	87870166	Schott's original fountain won a Gold Medal at the 1910 Brussels World's Fair.
USS Maine National Monument		59th Street & Columbus Circle 40°46′06″N 73°58′52″W / 40.768242°N 73.981012°W / 40.768242; -73.981012 (USS Maine National Monument)	Attilio Piccirilli, sculptor Harold Van Buren Magonigle, architect	Commissioned 1901 Dedicated 1913	76003528	Columbia Triumphant South side: Victory (left), Courage, Peace, Fortitude North side: The Warrior, Justice (missing her scale), History
USS Maine Memorial Tablet		USS Maine National Monument	Charles Keck, sculptor	Cast 1913 Installed 1936	76003527	Cast of metal from the destroyed battleship.
Vanderbilt Gate		Conservatory Gardens, 5th Avenue & 105th Street 40°47′37″N 73°57′07″W / 40.793511°N 73.951882°W / 40.793511; -73.951882 (Vanderbilt Gate)	Unknown sculptor	Installed 1938	76003559
Daniel Webster		West 72nd Street & West Drive 40°46′29″N 73°58′27″W / 40.77475°N 73.97412°W / 40.77475; -73.97412 (Daniel Webster (Ball))	Thomas Ball, sculptor	Statuette cast 1853 Statue cast 1876 Dedicated 1876	76004876

Former sculptures[]

Name	Image	Location / GPS Coordinates	Designers	Year	IAS number	Notes
Auld Lang Syne[17] "Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnnie"		5th Avenue, by the Casino	Robert Thomson [Thompson?], sculptor	Carved 1862 Dedicated 1866 Moved to storage Damaged in a fire 1881
Simón Bolívar Monument Equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar		Central Park West & 83rd Street	R. de la Cora [sic. Rafael de la Cova], sculptor	Installed 1884		The awkward statue was removed by the 1890s. A proposed Bolívar statue by Giovanni Turini, to be placed on the same base, was rejected in 1897.[18] The current Bolívar statue, by Sally James Farnham, was installed in 1921.
Bust of Miguel de Cervantes			Fernando Miranda y Casellas, sculptor[19]	Modeled c. 1878 Installed by 1892[20] Removed after 1918		Sketch of the unexecuted Cervantes Monument (1878).[21]
Commerce		8th Avenue, near 59th Street		Installed 1865[22]
Shepard Fountain (destroyed)		East Drive, opposite 78th Street	Olin Levi Warner, sculptor Unknown carver	Dedicated 1891 (Union Square) Moved to Central Park c. 1898 Destroyed 1953	88100201	The marble drinking fountain was first installed in Union Square, where it was vandalized. It was moved to Central Park about 1898, but deteriorated, and was removed in 1953.[23]
Dr. J. Marion Sims Memorial		103rd Street & 5th Avenue 40°47′33″N 73°57′10″W / 40.792489°N 73.952641°W / 40.792489; -73.952641 (Dr. J. Marion Sims)	Ferdinand von Miller II, sculptor Aymar Embury II, architect	Cast 1892 Dedicated 1894 Removed 2018	76003548	Sims used enslaved women for his gynecological research. The memorial became controversial in the 2000s when this became widely publicized. The statue was removed on April 17, 2018, and will be relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where Sims is buried.[24]
Swan and Cygnet Boy with Swan		"near 5th Avenue entrance"	Theodor Kalide, sculptor	Original 1834 (Germany) Donated 1863		Kalide's Boy with Swan was placed in the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens in Berlin in 1849.[25] 1863 Annual Report: "Feb. 28. One Bronze Fountain—Boy and Swan—presented by Thomas Richardson, Esq."[26]

Temporary sculptures[]

Name	Image	Location / GPS Coordinates	Designers	Year	IAS number	Notes
Volatile Presence Valley Marker Interrupted Messenger Measured Presence		Central Park Plaza	Beverly Pepper, sculptor	1983	87480101 87480102 87480103 87480104
The Gates		Various 7,503 "gates" on 23 miles (37 km) of pathways	Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists	Proposed 1979 February 12–27, 2005	71500738	The Gates was meant to evoke the procession of Japanese gateways leading to Shinto shrines.
V W X Yellow Elephant Underwear / H I J Kiddy Elephant Underwear[27]		Doris Freedman Plaza 5th Avenue & 60th Street	Chinatsu Ban, sculptor	April 8 – July 24, 2005
Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads		Pulitzer Fountain 5th Avenue & 59th Street 40°45′51″N 73°58′25″W / 40.76403°N 73.97361°W / 40.76403; -73.97361 (Pulitzer Fountain)	Ai Weiwei, sculptor	May 4 – July 15, 2011
How I Roll		Doris Freedman Plaza 5th Avenue & 60th Street	Paola Pivi, artist	June 20 – July 18, 2012		The Piper Seneca would slowly rotate head-over-tail. YouTube video. The sculpture was scheduled to be exhibited until August 26, but mechanical problems caused it to be removed in July.[28]

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