PUT ON A PEDESTAL
Photography by Chris Farling
Culture, history, architecture, and public space…in these ways, a city defines itself physically and expresses its personality. For Newark, those ideas came together in the form of statue-building. It is a tradition of public art that began in the 1800s and continues to this day.
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- Seth Boyden • 1890 • Carl Gerhart
- Wars of America • 1926 • Gutzon Borglum
- Wars of America • 1926 • Gutzon Borglum
- Wars of America • 1926 • Gutzon Borglum
- Wars of America • 1926 • Gutzon Borglum
- Wars of America • 1926 • Gutzon Borglum
- Seth Boyden • 1890 • Carl Gerhart
- Pl anting the Standard of Democracy • 1923 • Charles Henry Niehaus
- Rosa Parks • 2014 • Jay Warren
- Luis Munoz Rivera • 1968 • Compostela
- Puritan & Indian • 1916 • Gutzon Borglum
- Ab raham Lincoln • 1911 • Gutzon Borglum
- John F. Kennedy • 1965 • Jacques Lipchitz
- John F. Kennedy • 1965 • Jacques Lipchitz
- George Washington • 1912 • John Massey Rhind
- George Washington • 1912 • John Massey Rhind
- George Washington • 1912 • John Massey Rhind
- Frederick Freylinghuysen • 1894 • Karl Gerhart
- Monsignor George Doane • 1908 • Will iam Cl arke Noble
- Christopher Columbus • 1927 • Giuseppe Ciocchetti
- Christopher Columbus • 1927 • Giuseppe Ciocchetti
- Bartolomeo Coll eoni • 1916 • John Massey Rhind
- Seth Boyden • 1890 • Carl Gerhart
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