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Detail of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Facade,…
Nydia, The Blind Girl of Pompeii in the Metropolit…
Nydia, The Blind Girl of Pompeii in the Metropolit…
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The Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 2006
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Christmas Tree at My Parents' House, Dec. 2006
Christmas Tree at My Parents' House, Dec. 2006
Stamford Train Station, Oct. 2006
Stamford Train Station, Oct. 2006
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Cinderella Statue at the Disney Store on 5th Avenu…
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Pirates of the Caribbean Pirate Captain Display at…
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Nov. 2006
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Nov. 2006
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Bronze Sculpture of a Girl Holding a Sundial in th…
Bronze Sculpture of a Girl Holding a Sundial in th…
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Fountain Near the Kew Gardens Courthouse, Sept. 20…
Fountain Near the Kew Gardens Courthouse, Sept. 20…
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Fountain Near the Kew Gardens Courthouse, Sept. 20…
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House in Forest Hills Gardens, Aug. 2006
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Neon Sign in a Salon in Forest Hills, Aug. 2006
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Bride Fight by E.V. Day, Aug. 2006
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Bride Fight by E.V. Day, Aug. 2006
Bride Fight by E.V. Day, Aug. 2006
Bride Fight by E.V. Day, Aug. 2006
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The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
The Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst, Aug. 2006
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Fountain Near the Kew Gardens Courthouse, Sept. 2006
At Union Turnpike and Queens Blvd. you will also find "Fat Boy," or, more properly, Civic Virtue. It's probably the most over-the-top classically-themed public sculpture in New York City; only the Bailey Fountain, in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, comes close in ebullience. A massive statue depicting a nude muscular youth (depicting virtue) with a club slung over his right shoulder; at his feet writhe two nude mermaids (depicting vice). When Frederick MacMonnies created it from a single block of marble in 1919 and it was placed in Manhattan’s City Hall Park, it engendered no end of a hue and cry from offended feminists, prudes, and heavy hitters such as Charles Norton, President of Harvard University. Such a sensual depiction would not stand! Not in virtuous Manhattan. Eventually, in 1941, it was packed up, mermaids and all, and shipped to the Queens’ Borough Hall Plaza, where, presumably, right-thinking people wouldn’t see it.
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