Outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C.

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 is a 19½-foot (5.9 m) tall allegorical statue that rests atop the 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.

Statues of historical figures

Archer Alexander at Lincoln Park
Dante Alighieri in Meridian Hill Park
José Artigas at 18th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Francis Asbury at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets NW
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at the Turkish Embassy, 2525 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Marion Barry in front of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
John Barry at Franklin Square
Saint Bernadette at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial at Lincoln Park
Sir William Blackstone at Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Equestrian of Simón Bolívar at 18th and C Streets and Virginia Avenue NW
Simon Bolivar, Libertador at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Chuck Brown Memorial at Langdon Park, 2900 block of 23rd Street NE
James Buchanan at Meridian Hill Park
Edmund Burke at 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
John Carroll at 38th and Q Streets NW
Saint Christopher at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
Winston Churchill at the British Embassy, 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Christopher Columbus at Holy Rosary Church, 595 Third Street NW
Columbus Statue at Columbus Circle
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Louis Daguerre at Seventh and F Streets NW
Jane Delano at 18th and E Streets NW^[2]
William O. Douglas at 30th and Canal Streets NW
Albert Einstein at the Albert Einstein Memorial, 21st Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Duke Ellington at T Street and Florida Avenue 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
Saint Francis of Assisi at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
Benjamin Franklin at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue 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
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at 21st and Q Streets and Massachusetts Avenue NW
James A. Garfield at Garfield Circle
Cardinal James Gibbons at 16th Street and Park Road NW
Gibran Khalil Gibran on Massachusetts Ave NW
Josh Gibson at Nationals Park
Samuel Gompers at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
Ulysses S. Grant on the National Mall
Nathanael Greene in Stanton Park NE
Théodore Guérin on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception^[2]
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
Frank Howard at Nationals Park
Cordell Hull at the Organization of American States, 17th 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
Philip 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 NW
Joan of Arc in Meridian Hill Park
Pope John Paul II at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, 3900 Harewood Road NE
Walter Johnson at Nationals Park
John Paul Jones at the John Paul Jones Memorial 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
Martin Luther King Jr. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in West Potomac Park, adjacent to the National Mall
Tadeusz Kościuszko 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
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 NW
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at M Street and Connecticut Avenue NW
Martin Luther at 14th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW
Nelson Mandela at the Embassy of South Africa
Guglielmo Marconi at 16th and Lamont Streets NW
John Marshall at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Crown 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 NW
George Mason at the George Mason Memorial in East Potomac Park
George B. McClellan at Connecticut Avenue and Columbia Road NW
James B. McPherson at McPherson Square NW
George Meade at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Saint Michael at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
Peter Muhlenberg at Muhlenberg Park, Connecticut Avenue and Ellicott Street NW
Pablo Neruda at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Teresa de la Parra at the Organization of American States, 17th 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 22nd 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
Father Godfrey Schilling at the Franciscan Monastery at 14th and Quincy Streets NE
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 Sheridan at Sheridan Circle NW
William Tecumseh Sherman at 15th and E Streets NW
Taras Shevchenko at 22nd and P Streets NW
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben at Lafayette Square NW
Robert A. Taft at the Robert A. Taft Memorial, 1st Street and Constitution Avenue NW
George Henry Thomas at Thomas Circle NW
José Cecilio del Valle at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Artemas Ward at Ward Circle NW
George Washington at Washington Circle NW
George 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 NW
John Wesley at Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts NW
John Witherspoon at N Street and Connecticut Avenue NW
Carter G. Woodson at 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW^[3]

Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.

Boy Scout Memorial on the Ellipse
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
Dupont Circle Fountain at Dupont Circle NW
First Division Monument at State Place and 17th Street NW
The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution at 18th and C Streets NW
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 NW
Man Controlling Trade by Michael Lantz at Federal Trade Commission headquarters at Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Streets NW
Andrew 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 SE
Peace Monument in Peace Circle on the Capitol Grounds, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 1st Street NW
Red Cross Men and Women Killed in Service Memorial in garden of Red Cross National Headquarters, 1730 E Street NW
Second Division Memorial at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
She Who Must Be Obeyed by Tony Smith at the Frances Perkins Building
The Spirit of Haida Gwaii by Bill Reid at the Canadian Embassy
Three Soldiers by Frederick Hart at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens on Constitution Avenue NW
Transformers by an unknown artist stands in front of a house on Prospect Street NW in Georgetown
Women's Titanic Memorial, 5th & P Street SW
Freedom 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

References

^ Jacob, Kathryn Allamong; Remsberg, Edwin Harlan (1998). Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 85–88. ISBN 978-0-8018-5861-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Every female statue in Washington, D.C., mapped". 19 May 2015.
^ "SHAW: Carter G. Woodson Memorial Park is Open in Shaw - Father of Black History Gets His Due".

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.

External links

Media related to Outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C. at Wikimedia Commons

[testament-1] Jacob, Kathryn Allamong; Remsberg, Edwin Harlan (1998). Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 85–88. ISBN 978-0-8018-5861-1.

[DC_Curbed-2] "Every female statue in Washington, D.C., mapped". 19 May 2015.

[3] "SHAW: Carter G. Woodson Memorial Park is Open in Shaw - Father of Black History Gets His Due".

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v t e Landmarks of Washington, D.C.
Memorials	Adams African American Civil War American Veterans Disabled for Life Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument Mary McLeod Bethune Boy Scout James Buchanan John Carroll D.C. War Albert Einstein Emancipation Dwight D. Eisenhower John Ericsson David Farragut First Division Thomas Gallaudet James A. Garfield Kahlil Gibran Samuel Gompers Ulysses S. Grant Holocaust Museum Holodomor Genocide Andrew Jackson Japanese American Patriotism During World War II Jefferson Memorial Lyndon Baines Johnson Grove John Paul Jones Marquis de Lafayette Law Enforcement Officers Lincoln Memorial statue Martin Luther King, Jr. Korean War Veterans George Mason George B. McClellan George Meade Peter Muhlenberg National Statuary Hall Collection Navy – Merchant Marine Nuns of the Battlefield Peace Monument John J. Pershing Second Division Signers of the Declaration of Independence The Extra Mile Three Soldiers Jean de Rochambeau Franklin Delano Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Island Taras Shevchenko Statues of the Liberators Oscar Straus Robert A. Taft Titanic United States Navy Victims of Communism Vietnam Veterans Vietnam Women's Washington Monument Daniel Webster World War I World War II Rainbow Pool
Other	Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Blair House Capitol Reflecting Pool Congressional Cemetery DAR Constitution Hall Exorcist steps First Air Mail Marker Ford's Theatre Petersen House Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Healy Hall Islamic Center Jefferson Pier John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Library of Congress Jefferson Adams Madison National Arboretum National Capitol Columns National Building Museum National Gallery of Art Lincoln's Cottage at Soldiers' Home Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool National Archives National Cathedral National Mall Octagon House Old Post Office Old Stone House Smithsonian Institution St. John's Episcopal Church The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace Tidal Basin Treasury Building Freedman's Bank Building Tudor Place Union Station United States Capitol Capitol Hill Dome Rotunda United States Supreme Court Building Watergate complex White House Willard Hotel
Parks and plazas	Constitution Gardens Dupont Circle East Potomac Park Farragut Square Freedom Plaza Lafayette Square L'Enfant Plaza Meridian Hill Park National Arboretum Pershing Park President's Park Rock Creek Park The Ellipse Union Square United States Botanic Garden West Potomac Park
Boundaries	Anacostia River Arlington Memorial Bridge Boundary markers of the original District of Columbia Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Constitution Avenue Francis Scott Key Bridge Pennsylvania Avenue Potomac River Zero Milestone
Nearby landmarks	Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier John F. Kennedy gravesite Arlington House Marine Corps War Memorial Mount Vernon Netherlands Carillon Pentagon Pentagon Memorial United States Air Force Memorial Women in Military Service for America Memorial
Planned	Adams Memorial National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial National Liberty Memorial Peace Corps Commemorative
Canceled	George Washington Memorial Building Gold Star Mothers National Monument Mammy memorial National Slave Memorial
Related	National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission National Mall and Memorial Parks List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C. National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Public art in Washington, D.C. (American Revolution Statuary, Civil War Monuments, Commemorating African-Americans, Outdoor sculpture)

Statues of historical figures

Other outdoor sculpture in D.C.

See also

References

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