NYC: Brooklyn Museum - Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden - Night from Penn Station

Night
Adolph A. Weinman (American, 1870–1952), circa 1910
From the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, formerly at 31st to 33rd Streets between 7th and 8th Avenues, Manhattan, designed by Charles Follen McKim. Granite.
66.250.1, Gift of Lipsett Demolition Co. and Youngstown Cartage.

This slumbering female figure once stood beside a huge clock above an entrance to the original Pennsylvania Station. The vast complex, completed in 1910, was designed by Charles Follen McKim and modeled after the Roman Baths of Caracalla. A column from the Waiting Room is installed on the lower terrace of the sculpture garden.

Each of four pedestrian entryways to the terminal was surmounted by a clock, flanked by two allegorical figures representing time. Day held a sunflower, and the hooded Night bears a droopy poppy. The terminal building was demolished in 1963. The sculpture was retrieved from a landfull in the New Jersey Meadowlands.

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Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden hosts a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures throughout the metropolitan area and reinstalled outside the Brooklyn Museum's Norman M. Feinberg Entrance. Most of these remarkable objects date to the period between 1880 and 1910, recording a great era in the cultural, architectural, and industrial history of New York City.

The Brooklyn Museum, sitting at the border of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights near Prospect Park, is the second largest art museum in New York City. Opened in 1897 under the leadership of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences president John B. Woodward, the 560,000-square foot, Beaux-Arts building houses a permanent collection including more than one-and-a-half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art.

The Brooklyn Museum was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.

National Historic Register #77000944

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Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Prospect Heights (show map)

Taken on: April 13, 2008

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