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| Thomas Jefferson||Karl Bitter (1867-1915) ||1915|| UVA West lawn, south of Pavilion IX || Jefferson seated, in a boxwood niche || | | Thomas Jefferson||Karl Bitter (1867-1915) ||1915|| UVA West lawn, south of Pavilion IX || Jefferson seated, in a boxwood niche || | ||
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| Thomas Jefferson|| Lloyd Lillie||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 art emeritus at Boston University. || | | 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 art emeritus at Boston University. || | ||
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| George Rodgers Clark||Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949)||1921|| Intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue and Main streets||Donated by Paul Goodloe Mcintyre to the University of Virginia; listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places || | | George Rodgers Clark||Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949)||1921|| Intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue and Main streets||Donated by Paul Goodloe Mcintyre to the University of Virginia; listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places || |
Revision as of 17:00, 23 March 2016
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 | |
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Memorial to General Ashby | Casper Buberl, George Julian Zolney | 1893 | University of Virginia Cemetery | effigy of bareheaded soldier standing on pedestal holding musket with fixed bayonet (dedicated to General Ashby but whether it actually depicts him is unclear); bronze tablets naming 1,097 Civil War dead, most of whom died of wounds or illness in Charlottesville hospitals and are buried in cemetery | |
Confederate Monument | ? | 1909 | Court Square, 5t St. and Jefferson | Confederate soldier leaning on musket facing south; inscriptions about valor; titled “At the Ready” a generic bronze typical of those mass-produced and posted on court squares all across the South. The sculptor is unknown. Flanked by two bronze smoothbore 12-pounder Napoleons, and cannonballs | |
Thomas Jonathan Jackson | Charles Keck (1875-1951) | 1924 | Jackson park, 4th St. and Jefferson | General Jackson mounted on his horse Little Sorrel; granite pedestal with sculpted figures representing Valor and Faith; names of battles, donated to the city with the surrounding park specifically as a site for the statue by Paul Goodloe McIntire | |
The Aviator | Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) | 1919 | U VA 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 art emeritus at Boston University. | |
George Rodgers Clark | Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949) | 1921 | Intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue and Main streets | Donated by Paul Goodloe Mcintyre to the University of Virginia; listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places | |
Lewis & Clark (and Sacagewea) | Charles Keck | 1918 | Intersection of Ridge Street and Main streets | Donated by Paul Goodloe Mcintire to the city, to face west on the colonial Three Chopt Road. The design originally showed only Lewis and Clark but Keck on his own initiative included the figure of Shoshone guide Sacagewea (and called her "the best of the lot"). Reliefs surrounding the statue show scenes from the expedition, including a depiction of the slave York. In 2009 the city added a bronze plaque explaining that Sacagawea is pathfinding, not crouching in subservience. | |
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 Jean Houdon; the original now stands in the Virginia capital in Richmond | |
Homer | 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 | |
Robert Edward Lee | Leo Lentelli | 1924 | Lee Park, Market St. between 2nd and 3rd | General Lee seated on his horse Traveller, donated to the city with the surrounding park specifically as a site for the statue by Paul Goodloe McIntire | |
St. Thomas Aquinas | Henry Mascotte | 1980's | St. Thomas Aquinas Church | St. Thomas Aquuinas seated with hands resting on knees, steel modern sculpture made of welded automobile bumpers on a concrete base, commissioned by Father Thomas Stickle, pastor of St. Thomas in the early 1980s. | |
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 |