Outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C.
The bronze statue of Union Army general George Henry Thomas in Thomas Circle is considered one of the finest equestrian monuments in Washington, D.C. [ 1] There are many outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C. In addition to the capital's most famous monuments and memorials , many figures recognized as national heroes (either in government or military) have been 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. A number of international figures, such as Mohandas Gandhi , have also been immortalized with statues. The Statue of Freedom United States Capitol dome.
In addition to the human likenesses, a number of public and private sculptures of animals, objects, and abstractions are 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 .
Archer Alexander at Lincoln Park Dante Alighieri in Meridian Hill Park José Artigas at 18th Street and Constitution Avenue NWFrancis Asbury at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets NWMustafa Kemal Atatürk at the Turkish Embassy , 2525 Massachusetts Avenue NWMarion Barry in front of the John A. Wilson Building , 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NWJohn Barry at Franklin Square Saint Bernadette at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NEMary McLeod Bethune Memorial at Lincoln Park Sir William Blackstone at Third Street and Constitution Avenue NWEquestrian of Simón Bolívar Simon Bolivar, Libertador Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWChuck Brown Memorial at Langdon Park, 2900 block of 23rd Street NEJames Buchanan at Meridian Hill Park Edmund Burke at 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWJohn Carroll Saint Christopher at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NEWinston Churchill at the British Embassy , 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NWChristopher Columbus at Holy Rosary Church, 595 Third Street NWColumbus Statue at Columbus Circle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWLouis Daguerre at Seventh and F Streets NWJane Delano at 18th and E Streets NW[ 2] William O. Douglas at 30th and Canal Streets NWAlbert Einstein at the Albert Einstein Memorial , 21st Street and Constitution Avenue NWDuke Ellington at T Street and Florida Avenue NWRobert Emmet at 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWJohn Ericsson at Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue SWDavid G. Farragut Farragut Square NWSaint Francis of Assisi at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NEBenjamin Franklin at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NWAlbert Gallatin at the U.S. Treasury Building's North PorticoEdward Miner Gallaudet at Gallaudet University Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet at Gallaudet University Bernardo de Gálvez at 22nd Street and Virginia Avenue NWMahatma Gandhi Memorial at 21st and Q Streets and Massachusetts Avenue NWJames A. Garfield at Garfield Circle Cardinal James Gibbons at 16th Street and Park Road NW
Gibran Khalil Gibran on Massachusetts Ave NWJosh Gibson at Nationals Park Samuel Gompers at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWUlysses S. Grant on the National Mall Nathanael Greene in Stanton Park NEThéodore Guérin on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception [ 2] Samuel Hahnemann at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWNathan Hale at Ninth Street and Constitution Avenue NWAlexander Hamilton at the U.S. Treasury Building's South PorticoWinfield Scott Hancock at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NWJoseph Henry at 10th Street and Jefferson Drive NWFrank Howard at Nationals ParkCordell Hull at the Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWQueen Isabella of Spain at the Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWAndrew Jackson at Lafayette Square NWPhilip Jaisohn at the Korean Consulate on Sheridan Circle Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial Saint Jerome at the Croatian Embassy, 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWJoan of Arc in Meridian Hill ParkPope John Paul II at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center , 3900 Harewood Road NEWalter Johnson at Nationals ParkJohn Paul Jones at the John Paul Jones Memorial at 17th Street and Independence Avenue SWBenito Juárez at Virginia and New Hampshire Avenues NWFrancis Scott Key at 36th and M Street NWMartin Luther King Jr. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in West Potomac Park , adjacent to the National Mall Tadeusz Kościuszko at Lafayette Square NWMichael Kováts de Fabricy at the Hungarian Embassy, 3910 Shoemaker Street NWMarquis Gilbert de Lafayette at Lafayette Square NWAbraham Lincoln at the Lincoln MemorialAbraham Lincoln at Lincoln Park
Abraham Lincoln at Fourth and D Streets NW
Abraham Lincoln at President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home at Upshur Street and Rock Creek Church Road NW
Major General John A. Logan at Logan Circle NWHenry Wadsworth Longfellow at M Street and Connecticut Avenue NWMartin Luther at 14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWNelson Mandela at the Embassy of South Africa Guglielmo Marconi at 16th and Lamont Streets NWJohn Marshall at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NWCrown Princess Märtha , Norwegian Embassy [ 2] Mary, Protector of Faith on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception [ 2] Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk at 22nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWGeorge Mason at the George Mason Memorial in East Potomac ParkGeorge B. McClellan at Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road NWJames B. McPherson at McPherson Square NWGeorge Meade at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NWSaint Michael at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NEPeter Muhlenberg at Muhlenberg Park, Connecticut Avenue and Ellicott Street NWPablo Neruda at the Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWTeresa de la Parra at the Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWJohn Pershing at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NWAlbert Pike at Third and D Streets NWCount Casimir Pulaski at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NWAlexander Pushkin at 22nd and H Streets NWJohn A. Rawlins at 18th and E Streets NWComte Jean de Rochambeau at Lafayette Square NWEleanor 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 Father Godfrey Schilling at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NEWinfield Scott at Scott Circle NWOlive Risley Seward at Sixth Street and North Carolina Avenue NEAlexander Robey Shepherd at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NWPhilip Sheridan at Sheridan Circle NWWilliam Tecumseh Sherman at 15th and E Streets NWTaras Shevchenko at 22nd and P Streets NWFriedrich Wilhelm von Steuben at Lafayette Square NWRobert A. Taft at the Robert A. Taft Memorial , 1st Street and Constitution Avenue NWGeorge Henry Thomas at Thomas Circle NWJosé Cecilio del Valle at the Organization of American States , 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWArtemas Ward at Ward Circle NWGeorge Washington at Washington Circle NWGeorge Washington at 20th and H Street NW
George Washington at the Washington National Cathedral , Cathedral Drive and Wisconsin Avenue NW
Daniel Webster Memorial at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NWJohn Wesley at Wesley Theological Seminary , 4500 Massachusetts NWJohn Witherspoon at N Street and Connecticut Avenue NWCarter G. Woodson at 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW[ 3]
Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.
Fountain in Dupont Circle Boy Scout Memorial on the Ellipse The Burghers of Calais Auguste Rodin at The Hirshhorn Sculpture GardenCivil War Nurses (aka Nuns of the Battlefield Rhode Island Avenue NWCrouching Woman Dupont Circle Fountain at Dupont Circle NWFirst Division Monument at State Place and 17th Street NWThe Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution Heritage and Guardianship by James Earle Fraser at the National Archives Building on Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets NW(Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson at Georgia and Kansas avenues NW in Petworth.Holodomor Memorial at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Streets NWMan Controlling Trade Michael Lantz at Federal Trade Commission headquarters at Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Streets NWAndrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain at Constitution Ave & Pennsylvania Ave.The Court of Neptune Fountain by Roland Hinton Perry in front of the Library of Congress 's Thomas Jefferson Building on 1st Street SEPeace Monument in Peace Circle on the Capitol Grounds, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 1st Street NWRed Cross Men and Women Killed in Service Memorial in garden of Red Cross National Headquarters , 1730 E Street NWSecond Division Memorial at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NWShe Who Must Be Obeyed Tony Smith at the Frances Perkins Building The Spirit of Haida Gwaii by Bill Reid at the Canadian Embassy Three Soldiers Frederick Hart at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens on Constitution Avenue NWTransformers Women's Titanic Memorial , 5th & P Street SWFreedom to Read, by Davide Prete, 5001 Central Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20019 (Capitol View Library)
Soundwave Art Park, by Davide Prete & Justin Wilson, 3390 Minnesota Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20019
See also
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.
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