"Replica of the Statue of Liberty" Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum
Permanent event
The Brooklyn Museum has completed conservation work on its "little" Lady Liberty, a thirty-foot replica of the Bedloe's Island Statue of Liberty. The historic statue, which once adorned the Liberty Warehouse in Manhattan, is part of the Museum's permanent collection of New York City architectural pieces.
Since 1885, when the 151-foot original created by the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904) was erected on Bedloe's Island, the colossal figure has inspired numerous smaller-scale replicas intended to echo the ideals of freedom, tolerance, and opportunity that it embodied for waves of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. This thirty-foot replica was commissioned about 1900 by the Russian-born auctioneer William H. Flattau to sit atop his eight-story Liberty Warehouse (at 43 West 64th Street), then one of the highest points on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Flattau thus combined his entrepreneurial spirit with pride in the adopted country in which he had prospered.
Media
Schedule
Permanent event
from March 16, 2008 to December 01, 2010
Artist(s)
Leo Lentelli et al.