Word: diana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creator was Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Dublin-born descendant of French shoemakers renowned in the late 19th century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made...
Start again. This time Diana was only 13 feet tall and perfect - an 800-lb. beauty of gilded sheet copper...
Farewell to Thee. Diana's demise came in 1925, when the New York Life Insurance Co. decided to build a skyscraper on the site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten. A few weeks ago, New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay wrote to Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate asking for Diana's return to grace the new $38 million Madison Square Garden now abuilding on the site of the old Pennsylvania Station. Last week Tate replied: Never. "When no one wanted this poor little orphan girl, Philadelphia took her in, gave her a palatial home, and created a beautiful image for her." Added Tate: "Would you really have me believe that you would give Manhattan back to the Indians if they returned...
Study & Copy. To be sure, New York still has Saint-Gaudens' original concrete study in the Museum of the City of New York. Another Diana, a 9-foot bronze copy made in 1928, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum; its twin graces the Long Island garden, now public, of the late Financier John S. Phipps. But the real Diana is New York's no more...