Aymar Embury II Gallery of NYC New Deal Projects - Photo #167 - Statuary: pedestals, plinths, and settings

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ambrosemonument
Photo: Dianne L. Durant[1]
The John Wolfe Ambrose monument, Battery Park, Manhattan. Original bust by Andrew O'Connor, Jr, created ca. 1900; recreated ca. 2017. Monument dedicated 1936, with map of New York Harbor by Frederick G.R. Roth, architect Aymar Embury II.[1,2] Embury was, of course, a New Deal architect; Roth was a WPA sculptor whose works are also featured in Embury's Central Park Zoo, among other places.
References:
  1. John Wolfe Ambrose, Battery Park, Dianne L. Durante, diannedurantewriter.com, 13 March 2019.
  2. Battery Park, NYC Parks Department: "NYC Parks chief consultant architect Aymar Embury II (1880-1966) designed an architectural setting and wall niche for the sculpture which was inserted into the New York Aquarium at Castle Clinton, and decorated with a relief map of the harbor by Frederick G. R. Roth (1872-1944). The monument was dedicated by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) on June 3, 1936."
  3. NYC Parks Department press release 2 June 1936 (explains the monument but does not credit Embury or the New Deal).