MacMonnies
Americannoun
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Behind Fortitude, on the north, is the fountain of Truth, shown by MacMonnies as an old man, with a physique somewhat reminiscent of the sculptor’s notorious “Civic Virtue,” now residing in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
And though MacMonnies is not buried at Green-Wood, his parents and brother are.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2012
Brooklyn-born, Paris-educated, MacMonnies specialized in grand public monuments: His Nathan Hale statue in City Hall Park and one of the groups at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Brooklyn had been judged socially acceptable.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2011
Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
It cheered when the big searchlights atop the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building began sweeping the crowd, and when colorful plumes of water—“peacock feathers,” the Tribune called them—began erupting from the MacMonnies Fountain.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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