Outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C.
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There is more outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C. than in any other city in the United States. In addition to the capital's most famous monuments and memorials, virtually any figure recognized as a national hero, either in government or military, is likely to be posthumously awarded with his or her own statue in a park or public square. Some figures appear on several statues: Abraham Lincoln, for example, has at least three likenesses, including those at the Lincoln Memorial, in Lincoln Park, and the old Superior Court of the District of Columbia. There are also a number of international figures, such as Mohandas Gandhi, who have been immortalized with statues. The most prominent statue in Washington is the "Statue of Freedom", a 19½-foot (5.9 m) tall allegorical statue that rests atop the Capitol dome. By law, no statue in Washington may be taller, so many statues — such as that of Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial — are 19-feet tall.
Such human-likeness statues are the most commonplace sculptures in Washington, but there are also a number of public and private sculptures of animals, objects, and abstractions spread throughout the city. Two museums on the National Mall include sculpture gardens: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art.
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[edit] Statues of humans
- Archer Alexander at Lincoln Park
- Dante Aligheri at Meridian Hill Park
- José Artigas at 18th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Francis Asbury at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets NW
- John Barry at 14th and I Streets NW
- Mary McLeod Bethune at Lincoln Park
- Sir William Blackstone at Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Simón Bolívar at 18th and C Streets and Virginia Avenue NW
- Boy Scout Memorial on the Ellipse
- James Buchanan at Meridian Hill Park
- Edmund Burke at 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Carroll at 38th and Q Streets NW
- Winston Churchill at the British Embassy, 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Christopher Columbus at Holy Rosary Church, 595 Third Street NW
- Christopher Columbus at Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE
- Louis Daguerre at Seventh and F Streets NW
- Jane Delano at 18th and E Streets NW
- William O. Douglas at 30th and Canal Streets NW
- Albert Einstein at the National Academy of Sciences, 500 Fifth Street NW
- Robert Emmet at 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Ericsson at Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue SW
- David G. Farragut at Farragut Square NW
- Benjamin Franklin at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution at 18th and C Streets NW
- Albert Gallatin at the U.S. Treasury Building's North Portico
- Edward Miner Gallaudet at Gallaudet University
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet at Gallaudet University
- Bernardo de Gálvez at 22nd Street and Virginia Avenue NW
- Mohandas Gandhi at 21st and Q Streets and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- James A. Garfield on the National Mall
- Samuel Gompers at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Ulysses S. Grant on the National Mall
- Nathaniel Greene in Stanton Park NE
- Samuel Hahnemann at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Nathan Hale at Ninth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Alexander Hamilton at the U.S. Treasury Building's South Portico
- Winfield Scott Hancock at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Joseph Henry at 10th Street and Jefferson Drive NW
- Cordell Hull at Eighteenth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Queen Isabella of Spain at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Andrew Jackson at Lafayette Square NW
- Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial
- Saint Jerome at the Croatian Embassy, 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- Joan of Arc at Meridian Hill Park
- Pope John Paul II at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, 3900 Harewood Road NE
- John Paul Jones at 17th Street and Independence Avenue SW
- Benito Juárez at Virginia and New Hampshire Avenues NW
- Francis Scott Key at 36th and M Street NW
- Thaddeus Kosciuszko at Lafayette Square NW
- Michael Kováts de Fabricy at the Hungarian Embassy, 3910 Shoemaker Street NW
- Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette at Lafayette Square NW
- Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial
- Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln Park
- Abraham Lincoln at Fourth and D Streets NW
- John A. Logan at Logan Circle NW
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at M Street and Connecticut Avenue NW
- Martin Luther at 14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Marshall at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk at 22nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- George B. McClellan at Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road NW
- James B. McPherson at McPherson Square NW
- George Meade at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Pablo Neruda at Eighteenth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- John Pershing at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Albert Pike at Third and D Streets NW
- Count Casimir Pulaski at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Alexander Pushkin at 20th and H Streets NW
- John A. Rawlins at 18th and E Streets NW
- Comte Jean de Rochambeau at Lafayette Square NW
- Eleanor Roosevelt in Room 4 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Eleanor Roosevelt at the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues NW
- Franklin D. Roosevelt in Room 1 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Franklin D. Roosevelt in Room 3 of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Theodore Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island
- Winfield Scott at Scott Circle NW
- Olive Risley Seward at Sixth Street and North Carolina Avenue NE
- Alexander Robey Shepherd at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
- Philip H. Sheridan at Sheridan Circle NW
- William T. Sherman at 15th and E Streets NW
- Taras Shevchenko at 22nd, 23rd, and P Streets NW
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben at Lafayette Square NW
- Robert A. Taft at the Robert Taft Memorial, 1st Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- George H. Thomas at Thomas Circle NW
- George Washington at Washington Circle NW
- George Washington at 22nd and H Streets NW
- George Washington at the Washington National Cathedral, Cathedral Drive and Wisconsin Avenue NW
- Daniel Webster at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
- John Wesley at Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts NW
- John Witherspoon at N Street and Connecticut Avenue NW
[edit] Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.
- "The Awakening" by John Seward Johnson II at Hains Point
- "The Burghers of Calais" by Auguste Rodin at The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden
- Civil War Nurses (aka Nuns of the Battlefield) at M Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW
- "Crouching Woman" by Rodin at The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden
- First Division of the Army Monument at State Place and 17th Street NW
- Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Eighteenth and C Streets NW
- Andrew Mellon fountain at Dupont Circle NW
- Neptune Fountain by Roland Hinton Perry in front of the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building on 1st Street SE
- Second Division of the Army Monument at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
- "The Spirit of Haida Gwaii" by Bill Reid at The Canadian Embassy
- "The Three Soldiers" by Frederick Hart at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens on Constitution Avenue NW
- Women's Titanic Memorial, 5th & P Street SW
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- James M. Goode, The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. (1974)
- Washington D.C. Memorials, a directory of memorials, monuments, statues & other outdoor art in Washington, D.C.
