Photo: Dianne L. Durant[1]
The John Wolfe Ambrose monument, Battery Park, Manhattan. Original
bust by Andrew O'Connor, Jr, created ca. 1900; recreated ca. 2017. Monument
dedicated 1936, with map of New York Harbor by Frederick G.R. Roth,
architect Aymar Embury II.[1,2] Embury was, of course, a New Deal architect;
Roth was a WPA sculptor whose works are also featured in Embury's Central
Park Zoo, among other places.
References:
- John Wolfe Ambrose, Battery Park, Dianne L. Durante, diannedurantewriter.com, 13 March 2019.
- Battery Park, NYC Parks Department: "NYC Parks chief consultant architect Aymar Embury II (1880-1966) designed an architectural setting and wall niche for the sculpture which was inserted into the New York Aquarium at Castle Clinton, and decorated with a relief map of the harbor by Frederick G. R. Roth (1872-1944). The monument was dedicated by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) on June 3, 1936."
- NYC Parks Department press release 2 June 1936 (explains the monument but does not credit Embury or the New Deal).