Forgotten Delights : A Selection of Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture: the Producers

Detailed look at 19 outdoor sculptures in New York City: explorers, inventors, engineers, businessmen and workers whose thoughts and efforts reshaped New York, the United States and the world. Included are the Columbus Monument, Columbus in Central Park, Giovanni da Verrazzano, The Pilgrim, Humboldt, Cooper, Morse, Sims, Vanderbilt, Dodge, Ericsson, Holley, the Marteleur, The Immigrants, The Garment Worker, Rea, Double Check, Taxi, and Dreaming of Far Away Places. This is the first guidebook to offer not just maps and photographs, but detailed information on select outdoor figurative sculptures in Manhattan: historical context and significance, anecdotes, quotations. It is one of a projected series of 6 guidebooks to Manhattan’s outdoor representational sculpture.Durante, Dianne L. is the author of 'Forgotten Delights : A Selection of Manhattan's Outdoor Sculpture: the Producers', published 2003 under ISBN 9780974589909 and ISBN 097458990X.