by Susan | Sep 1, 2025 | Monuments
Lincoln the Mystic is a bronze statue by James Earle Fraser, who also sculpted the Buffalo Nickle for the U.S. Mint. It is located at Lincoln Park in Jersey City, near the beginning of the Lincoln Highway. Frasier’s intellectual property was donated to Syracuse...
by Susan | Aug 18, 2025 | Monuments
Knowledge is Power is an 8- by 12-foot bronze of an open book. Faces and figures of 31 philosophers, writers, and scientists emerge from the pages. Located at Rowan University, it is inspired from a quote by Francis Bacon. Artist Zenos Frudakis chose a book as a...
by Susan | Aug 11, 2025 | Monuments
The theme of Light Dispelling Darkness is combating the darkness of evil through the enlightenment of knowledge. The central pillar of the fountain depicts images of education, industry, and science in a deco relief style, and supports a globe of the Earth that is...
by Susan | Jul 21, 2025 | Monuments
In the Fall of 1927 Morris Frank was a blind graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, working as an insurance agent with the help of an aide. His father read him an article in the Saturday Evening Post by Dorothy Harrison Eustis, who described schools in...
by Susan | Jun 30, 2025 | Monuments
This 1994 sculpture by Diana K. Moore, a large, blindfolded head of the Greek titaness Themis, is in the courtyard in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Courthouse at the Government Center in Newark. Justice is 11 tall, 8.8 ft wide, 9 ft (2.7 m) long, and...
