From Flickr: “Beauty, New York Public Library, Bryant Park” by New York Big Apple Images

May 23, 2015 Uncategorized

Beauty (1921)
Sculptor: Frederick MacMonnies
New York Public Library (1902–11)
Architect: Carrère and Hastings
476 Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street
Bryant Park, New York

Beauty is depicted seated on Pegasus. Above is inscribed: Beauty, old yet ever new!/Eternal Voice and Inward Word (John Greenleaf Whitter, The Shadow and the Light).

© Matthew X. Kiernan
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