Jump to content

List of public art in Brooklyn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of public art in Brooklyn, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics.

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Owner / administrator Wikidata Notes
Bailey Fountain Grand Army Plaza

40°40′26″N 73°58′12″W / 40.67389°N 73.97009°W / 40.67389; -73.97009 (Bailey Fountain)
1932 Egerton Swartwout
Eugene Savage
Fountain Bronze
Beacon Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse

40°41′49″N 73°59′22″W / 40.696944°N 73.989444°W / 40.696944; -73.989444 (Beacon)
Lisa Scheer Sculpture Bronze

More images
Brooklyn War Memorial Cadman Plaza

40°41′54″N 73°59′26″W / 40.69846°N 73.99066°W / 40.69846; -73.99066 (Brooklyn War Memorial)
1951 War memorial

More images
Bust of Alexander Skene Grand Army Plaza Bust
Bust of Edward Snowden Fort Greene Park

40°41′30″N 73°58′32″W / 40.6917°N 73.9755°W / 40.6917; -73.9755 (Bust of Edward Snowden)
2015 Doyle Trankina
Andrew Tider
Jeff Greenspan
Bust Hydrocal Removed in 2015.

More images
Dover Patrol Monument John Paul Jones Park

40°36′41″N 74°2′3″W / 40.61139°N 74.03417°W / 40.61139; -74.03417 (Dover Patrol Monument)
1931 Aston Webb Obelisk
Equestrian statue of Henry Warner Slocum Grand Army Plaza

40°40′24″N 73°58′09″W / 40.6734°N 73.9691°W / 40.6734; -73.9691 (Equestrian statue of Henry Warner Slocum)
1905 Frederick William MacMonnies Equestrian statue

More images
Four Eagles Grand Army Plaza 1901 Frederick William MacMonnies
Stanford White
Bronze
Granite
Henry W. Maxwell Memorial Grand Army Plaza

40°40′26″N 73°58′8″W / 40.67389°N 73.96889°W / 40.67389; -73.96889 (Henry W. Maxwell Memorial)
1903 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Bronze
Granite

More images
Henry Ward Beecher Monument Cadman Plaza

40°41′41.5″N 73°59′24.4″W / 40.694861°N 73.990111°W / 40.694861; -73.990111 (Henry Ward Beecher Monument)
1891 John Quincy Adams Ward Monument Bronze
Granite
Originally located in Borough Hall Park, relocated to current location in 1959.

More images
John F. Kennedy Memorial Grand Army Plaza

40°40′27″N 73°58′13″W / 40.674269°N 73.970177°W / 40.674269; -73.970177 (John F. Kennedy Memorial)
2010 Neil Estern Bust Bronze
Granite
Replaced a previous memorial that had been dedicated in 1965.

More images
Lafayette Memorial Prospect Park

40°39′52″N 73°58′35.7″W / 40.66444°N 73.976583°W / 40.66444; -73.976583 (Lafayette Memorial)
1917 Daniel Chester French
Henry Bacon
Memorial Bronze
Granite

More images
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument Fort Greene Park

40°41′30″N 73°58′32″W / 40.6918°N 73.9756°W / 40.6918; -73.9756 (Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument)
1908 Adolph Alexander Weinman
Stanford White
War memorial Bronze
Granite

More images
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Columbus Park

40°41′37″N 73°59′24″W / 40.693704°N 73.989994°W / 40.693704; -73.989994 (Robert F. Kennedy Memorial)
1972 Anneta Duveen Bust Bronze
Granite

More images
Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch Grand Army Plaza

40°40′22″N 73°58′11″W / 40.6729°N 73.9698°W / 40.6729; -73.9698 (Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch)
1892 Frederick MacMonnies
Philip Martiny
John H. Duncan
Triumphal arch

More images
Statue of Christopher Columbus Columbus Park

40°41′38″N 73°59′24″W / 40.69391°N 73.98991°W / 40.69391; -73.98991 (Statue of Christopher Columbus)
1867 Emma Stebbins
Aymar Embury II
Statue Limestone
Marble
Statue of Gouverneur K. Warren Grand Army Plaza

40°40′23″N 73°58′14″W / 40.673015°N 73.97065°W / 40.673015; -73.97065 (Statue of Gouverneur K. Warren)
1896 Henry Baerer Statue Bronze
Granite
Statue of James S. T. Stranahan Prospect Park

40°40′19.5″N 73°58′10″W / 40.672083°N 73.96944°W / 40.672083; -73.96944 (Statue of James S. T. Stranahan)
1891 Frederick William MacMonnies Statue Bronze
Granite
Marble
Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg City Point 2021 Gillie and Marc Statue Bronze Scheduled to be dedicated in 2021.
Unity

40°41′46″N 73°59′17″W / 40.696°N 73.988°W / 40.696; -73.988 (Unity)
2019 Hank Willis Thomas Sculpture Bronze

More images
William Jay Gaynor Memorial Cadman Plaza

40°41′58″N 73°59′26″W / 40.69955°N 73.99053°W / 40.69955; -73.99053 (William Jay Gaynor Memorial)
1926 Adolph Alexander Weinman Memorial Bronze
Granite