Bailey Fountain
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Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NYC, NY.
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✎ Built in 1932 by architect Edgerton Swarthout and sculptor Eugene Francis Savage (1883-1978) -- renovated in 2005 and 2006. Named after Brooklyn-based financier and philanthropist Frank Bailey (1865-1953), who funded it as a memorial to his wife Mary Louise. It features an elaborate grouping of allegorical and mythical figures that includes the god of water Neptune and a pair of nudes, one male, one female, representing Wisdom and Felicity.
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Was there no moral outcry and troubles when the thing was new?
I like how you got the water splash with it.
But he got a really nice patina colour.