List of statues, monuments, and war memorials
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The following derives from a list of public sculptures maintained by the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. It omits exhibits by Art In Place, which are usually temporary. It also omits memorials in cemeteries unless independently notable as works of art.
| Name | Artist | Date erected | Place | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soldiers' Monument | Casper Buberl, George Julian Zolney | 1893 | University of Virginia Cemetery | The centerpiece of the Cemetery is a Soldiers' Monument honoring those soldiers who died during the Civil War. The memorial depicts a bareheaded soldier standing on pedestal holding musket with fixed bayonet; bronze tablets naming 1,097 Civil War dead, most of whom died of wounds or illness in Charlottesville hospitals and are buried in cemetery.[1] | |
| The Aviator | Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) | 1919 | UVA Grounds between Alderman and Clemons libraries | bronze life sized male nude figure of Icarus about to take flight, commissioned in honor of University alumnus, James Rogers McConnell’s courage in World War I as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. He was shot down and killed in 1917. The sculptor Borglum is better known for a larger work -- Mount Rushmore. | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Alexander Galt (1827-1863) | 1868 | Rotunda interior | Thomas Jefferson executed in white marble; students rescued the 1,000 pound sculpture from the blazing Rotunda during the fire of 1895 by dragging it downstairs on a mattress | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Moses Jacob Ezekial (1844-1917) | 1910 | UVA Rotunda north side | Thomas Jefferson standing on a liberty bell, surrounded by four allegorical figures in high relief: Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood and Justice. Not the original, a recasting of a 1901 statue executed for the city of Louisville; the sculptor Moses Ezekial was one of the VMI Keydets who fought at New Market | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Karl Bitter (1867-1915) | 1915 | UVA West lawn, south of Pavilion IX | Jefferson seated, in a boxwood niche | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Lloyd Lillie (1932 - ) | 1978 | UVA north grounds between law school and school of commerce | Jefferson standing, the most recent statue of Jefferson at the University, the artist was a professor of art at Boston University. | |
| George Washington | Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) | 1913 | U Va East Lawn, South of Pavillion X | One of 33 bronze copies made of a 1796 original in marble commissioned by Thomas Jefferson from Houdon; the original now stands in the Virginia capital in Richmond | |
| Blind Homer with His Student Guide | Moses Jacob Ezekial (1844-1917) | 1907 | U Va South end of Lawn in front of Cabell Hall | seated blind Homer with nude young man seated at his feet playing a lyre, said to be his guide | |
| Paul Goodloe McIntire | ? | ? | Albemarle Charlotesville Historical society garden | bust of philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire, who made many gifts to Charlottesville including its public library, five public parks, and three monumental statues, and scholarships and buildings to local schools and to the University of Virginia, giving away a great deal of his considerable fortune. The historical society building bears his name. | |
| Fountain | restored 2004 | ? | Jefferson Street, east end | bronze watering fountain fed through four fish-like features to an upper bowl for citizens and their horses, and overflow fills a lower trough for dogs. Removed from in front of the courthouse on Jefferson Street in 1926, but restored through the efforts of the Charlottesville Volunteer Fire Company and the City of Charlottesville in 2004 |
References
- ↑ After the Civil War a group of Charlottesville women, most of whom had cared for sick and wounded soldiers, started the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association to care for graves in the cemetary. On June 7, 1893 the Association unveiled the statue of the Confederate soldier. From: Set in Stone, David Maurer, Virginia Magazine, Spring 2008, accessed April 13, 2016.