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MacMonnies

American  
[muhk-muhn-eez] / məkˈmʌn iz /

noun

  1. Frederick William, 1863–1937, U.S. sculptor.


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Behind Patience, on the south, is a fountain showing Beauty as a young woman, by the sculptor Frederick MacMonnies.

From New York Times Jul. 9, 2015

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

MacMonnies had trouble winning universal admiration for his various artistic visions in the first place.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2011

Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Large colored bulbs lit the hundred-foot plumes of water that burst from the MacMonnies Fountain.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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