BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Central Park -- Sherman Monument

NY -- NYC -- Central Park -- Sherman Monument:

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[1] SHERMN_171222_01.JPG	[2] SHERMN_171222_08.JPG	[3] SHERMN_171222_09.JPG
[4] SHERMN_171222_11.JPG	[5] SHERMN_171222_13.JPG	[6] SHERMN_171222_16.JPG
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SHERMN_171222_01.JPG: William Tecumseh Sherman Monument William Tecumseh Sherman monument by Augustus Saint-Gardens (1848-1907) was the artist's last major monument and his crowning achievement. Architect Charles McKim designed the grant base for the monument and Saint-Gaudens brought on Alexander Phimister Proctor, a sculpture known for his depiction of animals, to sculpt the horse. This monument depicts the distinguished Civil War general (1820-1891) in his horse led by a winged female figure personifying victory and celebrates Sherman's victorious southern campaigns. Sherman appears stoic and pensive as he pulls on the regions of his horse, whose back hoof steps on the pine cones and boughs, a reference to the landscape of the south. he is propelled forward by Victory, who holds a palm frond and wears a crown of laurels, both symbols traditionally associated with her. The monument is made of bronze and is covered in gold leaf. Saint-Gardens used this treatment, undue for outdoor scepter, because he disliked the way bronze monument developed a dark patina. by using gold, with a pigment to accentuate the details, he intended to ensue that the monument world remain luminous overtime. The monument was conserved and re-glided in 2014, as part of Central Park Conservancy's project to reconstruct Grand Army Plaza.
2. SHERMN_171222_08.JPG: These close-up views of the Sherman monument, taken during the recent conservation project, show some of the scupture's extraordinary details. This depiction of Sherman was based on a portrait bust that Saint-Gaudens had modeled from life in 1888. Harriette Eugenia Anderson, an African-American woman who worked as an artist's model, posed for the figure of Victory.
3. SHERMN_171222_11.JPG: Various locations for the Sherman monument were proposed, including a site within Central Park. It was ultimately installed in 1903, in the center of a traffic circle at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue that marked one of the main entrances to Central Park. This plaza at the southeast corner of the Park was thereafter known as Grand Army Plaza.
4. SHERMN_171222_13.JPG: The Sherman monument was incorporated into the redesign and expansion of Grand Army Plaza by the architectural firm Carrere & Hastings. A scaled-back version of the original design was implemented in two phases beginning in 1913 and included the installation of the Pulitzer Fountain, directly across 59th Street.
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Wikipedia Description: William Tecumseh Sherman (Saint-Gaudens)
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William Tecumseh Sherman, also known as the Sherman Memorial or Sherman Monument, is an outdoor sculpture of William Tecumseh Sherman by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, located at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan, New York. Cast in 1902 and dedicated on May 30, 1903, the gilded-bronze monument consists of an equestrian statue and a female figure, set on a Stony Creek granite pedestal.
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