List of public art in Boston

Name Artist Year Location Material Dimensions Notes Image George Thorndike Angell Memorial Peabody & Stearns 1912 Post Office Square, Boston

Angell Memorial Plaza

terrazzo; gilded copper; steel. h. 60 ft. x W. 10 ft. Appeal to the Great Spirit Cyrus Edwin Dallin 1908 Boston Museum of Fine Arts bronze sculpture: 290 cm × 250 cm × 300 cm (114″ × 100″ × 120″) Boston Museum of Fine Arts Aristides Statue Louisburg Square height: 1.8 m (6 ft) Army Nurses Memorial Bela Pratt Massachusetts State House sculpture: 2.5 m (96″) Red Auerbach Statue Lloyd Lillie 1985 Quincy Market bronze 5 ft. x 6 ft. x 2 ft. 3 in Bagheera Fountain Lilian Swann Saarinen 1939 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite sculpture: 32″ x 16″ x 16″

plinth: 57″ high, 60″ diameter.

John Barry Tablet John Francis Paramino 1949,

1977 copy

Boston Common bronze; granite Beacon Hill Monument 1898 rebuilt Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park granite; slate, Bronze Boston Common Tablet R. Clipston Sturgis 1913 Boston Common slate, granite 15 x 5 x 20 ft Boston Irish Famine Memorial Robert Shure 1998 Washington Street and School Street plaza Boston Massacre Monument Robert Kraus Boston Common bronze; granite Boston Public Garden Flagpole Base William D. Austen 1921 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite sculpture: 6 x 4 x 4 ft

plinth: 3.5 x 7 x 7 ft.

Boston Women’s Memorial Meredith Bergmann 2003 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; granite Boy and Bird Fountain Bashka Paeff 1934,

recast
1977, 1992

Boston Public Garden bronze Brewer Fountain Michel Joseph Napoléon Liénard 1868 Park Street and Tremont Street corner bronze; granite height: 22 ft (6.7 m) Phillips Brooks Statue Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Frances Grimes 1910 Copley Square bronze; granite; marble Robert Burns Statue Henry Hudson Kitson 1920, relocated 1975 Back Bay Fens bronze; granite sculpture: 108″ x 60″x 60″

plinth: 56″ x 48″ x 62″

Thomas Cass Statue Richard E. Brooks 1899 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite (red beach Maine) sculpture: 8 ft. x 2 ft. 4 in. x 2 ft. 4 in.

plinth: 6 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 8 in

William Ellery Channing Statue Herbert Adams 1903 Boston Public Garden, exterior wall bronze; granite (Milford); marble sculpture: 8 ft. 5 in. x 45 in. x 46 in.

plinth: 25 ft. x 24 ft. x 86 in.

Charlestown Civil War Memorial Martin Milmore 1872 Winthrop Square Granite China Trade Gate David Judelson 1988 Chinatown (Beach Street) City Carpet Lilli Ann Killen Rosenberg 1983 Old City Hall Mosaic: ceramic;

bronze; stone; brick;
concrete

Bust of Patrick Collins Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, Henry Hudson Kitson 1908 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; granite Christopher Columbus Statue, Beacon Hill 1850 Louisburg Square marble Christopher Columbus Statue, North End Andrew J. Mazzola 1979 Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park marble; granite John Singleton Copley Statue Lewis Cohen 2002 Copley Square bronze James Michael Curley Statues Lloyd Lillie 1980 Faneuil Hall bronze Edwin Upton Curtis Memorial 1924 Charles River Esplanade Bust of Richard Cushing James Rosati 1980-1 Cardinal Cushing Memorial Park Bronze; Granite (red) Declaration of Independence Tablet John Francis Paramino 1925 Boston Common bronze; granite Tony DeMarco Statue Harry Weber 2012 North End bronze Democratic Donkey 1998 installed Old City Hall bronze Charles Devens Statue Olin Levi Warner 1894 Charles River Esplanade bronze; granite sculpture: 7 x 3 x 3 ft

plinth: 7 x 3 x 3 ft

Dolphins of the Sea Katharine Lane Weems 1977 New England Aquarium bronze Mary Dyer Statue Sylvia Shaw Judson 1959 Massachusetts State House bronze; granite Echo of the Waves Susumu Shingu 1981 New England Aquarium painted steel; Teflon coated fiberglass Charles Eliot Memorial 1831 Charles River Esplanade granite John Endecott Statue C. Paul Jennewein 1936 Forsyth Park granite (white, red) Leif Erikson Statue Anne Whitney 1887 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; granite Ether Monument William Robert Ware or John Quincy Adams Ward 1868 Boston Public Garden granite height: 12 m (40 ft) Edward Everett Statue William Wetmore Story 1866 Richardson Park bronze; granite sculpture: 7 x 4 x 2.5 ft.

plinth: 7 x 5.5 x 5.5 ft

David Farragut Statue Henry Hudson Kitson 1891 Marine Park bronze; granite Arthur Fiedler Memorial Ralph Helmick 1984 Charles River Esplanade aluminum, granite Benjamin Franklin Statue Richard Saltonstall Greenough; Thomas Ball 1856 Old City Hall sculpture: 100″ x 26″. x 26″

plinth: 111″ x 90″ x 90″

The Founders Memorial John Francis Paramino 1930 Boston Common bronze; granite William Lloyd Garrison Statue Olin Levi Warner 1886 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; granite (Quincy) sculpture: 7 ft. x 4 ft. x 6 ft. 4 in.

plinth: 4 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. x 6 ft. 4 in.

John Glover Statue Martin Milmore 1875 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; granite sculpture: 8 ft. x 3 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 6 in

plinth: 6 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 6 in.

Marvin E. Goody Memorial Joan Goody 1984 Boston Public Garden granite (red, Dakota mahogany) Edward Everett Hale Statue Bela Pratt 1913 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite Alexander Hamilton Statue William Rimmer 1865 Commonwealth Avenue Mall granite sculpture:10 ft. x 3 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 4 in. Harbor Fog Ross Miller 2009 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway steel; bronze; granite; LED lights Joseph Hooker equestrian statue Daniel Chester French; Edward Clark Potter 1903 Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park bronze; granite Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial Ted Clausen; Peter White 1997 Commonwealth Avenue Mall granite Hungarian Revolution Memorial E. Gyuri Hollosy 1986 Liberty Square Park bronze; granite; steel Anne Hutchinson Statue Cyrus Edwin Dallin 1915 Massachusetts State House bronze; granite sculpture: 98″ x 52″ x 30″

plinth: 78″ x 66″ x 48″

Indian Hunter Paul Manship Museum of Fine Arts, Boston bronze; granite Museum of Fine Arts, Boston John F. Kennedy Statue Isabel McIlvain 1990 Massachusetts State House bronze; granite sculpture: 8 ft. 2 in. x 3 ft. x 18 in.

plinth: 27 x 72 x 87.5 in

Tadeusz Kościuszko Statue Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson 1927 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite sculpture: 10 ft. x 32 in. x 27 in

plinth: 6 ft. x 6 ft. x 5 ft. 7 in.

Japanese Lantern 1587 Boston Public Garden granite gifted to the city by Bunkio Matsuki in 1904 Pope John Paul II Memorial Frank Chalfant Gaylord, II 1981 Boston Common granite 53 .5″ x 32″ x 8.25″ Henry Cabot Lodge Statue Raymond Averill Porter 1932 Massachusetts State House bronze; granite sculpture: 96 x 30 x 28 1/2 in.,

plinth: 73 x 56 x 53 1/2 in

Lotta Fountain Katharine Lane Weems; J. W. Ames and E. S. Dodge 1939 Charles River Esplanade granite Make Way for Ducklings Nancy Schön 1987 Boston Public Garden bronze Horace Mann Statue Emma Stebbins 1865 Massachusetts State House bronze; granite Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial Robert Shure 2007 Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park bronze; granite Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial Michael Kenny 2004 Massachusetts State House, Ashburton Park granite Samuel Eliot Morison Statue Penelope Jencks 1982 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; granite New England Holocaust Memorial Stanley Saitowitz 1995 Carmen Park glass; steel A Once and Future Shoreline Ross Miller 1996 Faneuil Hall, west side granite City of Boston Oneida Football Club Monument Joseph Arthur Coletti 1925 Boston Common marble tablet: 198 cm x 76.2 cm x 17.78 cm John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial Daniel Chester French 1896 Back Bay Fens bronze; granite Bobby Orr Statue Harry Weber 2010 TD Garden bronze The Partisans Andrzej Pitynski 1983 South Boston waterfront aluminum George S. Patton Statue James Earle Fraser 1953 Charles River Esplanade bronze; granite Wendell Phillips Statue Daniel Chester French 1915 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite (Stony Creek pink) Poe Returning to Boston Stefanie Rocknak 2014 Boylston Street and Charles Street, Edgar Allan Poe Square Josiah Quincy III Statue Thomas Ball 1879 Old City Hall Paul Revere equestrian statue Cyrus Edwin Dallin 1885, cast 1940 Paul Revere Mall bronze; granite Bill Russell Statue Ann Hirsch 2013 Boston City Hall Plaza bronze Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Statue Ivette Compagnion 1973 Commonwealth Avenue Mall bronze; concrete sculpture: 10 ft. x 4 ft. 1 in. x 3 ft. 3 in Robert Gould Shaw Memorial Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1897 Beacon Street bronze; granite Small Child Fountain Mary E. Moore 1929 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite sculpture: 28″ x 21″ x 17″ Soldiers and Sailors Monument Martin Milmore 1877 Boston Common granite; bronze column: 126 ft

plinth: 35 ft square

Statler Fountain Ulysses Anthony Ricci 1930 Statler Park bronze; granite James J. and Helen Storrow Memorial 1948 Charles River Esplanade bronze; granite Charles Sumner Statue Thomas Ball 1878 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite Temple Bell Suzuki Magoemon 1675 Back Bay Fens bronze, granite sculpture: 91 cm x 61 cm diameter, (36″ x 24″ diameter)

plinth: 109 cm x 81 cm x 81 cm (43″ x 32″ x 32″)

Thermopylae Dimitri Hadzi 1966 Boston City Hall Plaza bronze sculpture:12 ft. tall and 16 ft. wide Maurice J. Tobin Statue Emilius R. Ciampa 1958 Charles River Esplanade bronze; granite The Tortoise and the Hare Nancy Schön 1994 Copley Square bronze Triton Babies Fountain Anna Coleman Ladd 1922 Boston Public Garden bronze, granite Harriet Tubman Memorial) Fern Cunningham 1999 South End; Harriet Tubman Park bronze David I. Walsh Statue Joseph Arthur Coletti 1954 Charles River Esplanade bronze; granite sculpture: 8 x 3 x 3 ft. George Washington equestrian statue Thomas Ball 1869 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite sculpture: 22 x 6 x 15 ft

plinth: 16 x 8 x 15 ft.

Daniel Webster Statue Hiram Powers 1859 Massachusetts State House bronze; granite George Robert White Memorial Daniel Chester French; Henry Bacon 1924 Boston Public Garden bronze; granite Kevin White Statue 2006 Faneuil Hall bronze John Winthrop Statue Richard Saltonstall Greenough 1873 First Church in Boston bronze; concrete sculpture: 7 ft. x 2 ft. 5 in. x 2 ft. 3 in.

plinth: 4 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. x 8 ft

World War I Memorial Albert Henry Atkins 1922 Adams Square granite sculpture: 8 x 12 x 1 ft World War II Memorial, Fenway – Kenmore John Francis Paramino 1948 Back Bay Fens bronze; granite