Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (Manhattan)

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Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
Farragut sculpture.JPG
The monument in 2006
Artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Stanford White
Year 1881 (1881)
Type Sculpture
Material Bronze, granite
Subject David Farragut
Location New York City, New York, United States

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, also known as the Admiral Farragut Monument, is an outdoor bronze sculpture of David Farragut by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens on an exedra designed by architect Stanford White, located in Madison Square in Manhattan, New York. The statue, cast in 1880 and dedicated on May 25, 1881, is set on a Coopersberg (Pennsylvania) black granite pedestal.[1]

A 1910 bronze bust from the sculpture is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2]

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  2. Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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