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Winged Victory
•Artist unknown, exact date unknown •Cast in plaster, 9 feet high, Crouse College interior, first floor •The Syracuse University Art Department purchased this and other statues to serve as models for art students to sketch from. The sculpture is a late 19th century depiction of the greek goddess Nike (Victory). -
Herakles
•Emile Antoine Bourdelle, French, 1861-1929 •Bronze, 10 x 8 feet, Quad •The bronze statue by Emile Antoine Bourdelle a French sculptor who lived from 1861-1929 is located on the Quad. •Inspired by Greek mythology the statue depicts Hercules' victory over the monsters. -
Abraham Lincoln, seated
•James Earle Fraser, American, 1876-1953 •Bronze 9' x 3' feet, outside of Maxwell Hall. Created in 1930, installed at SU in 1968. •This statue of the 16th president is one of two of its kind. The other is in Jersey City, New Jersey at the end of the Lincoln Memorial Highway. •Gift of the Fraser Estate and Mrs. Oliver H. Sawyer. -
Diana
•Anna Hyatt Huntington, American 1876-1973 •Bronze Bird Library, 3rd Floor •Diana is the Huntress of Greek mythology. In the statue she is depicted as just having released an arrow, while she and her dog look on. •Tradition has it that a student who rubs the dog's paw and says a brief prayer will be successful in an upcoming quiz or examination (SU Archives). -
Elemental Man
•Malvina Hoffman, American 1887-1966 •Bronze, 76 inches, College of Law patio. •In the statue the male figure struggles to free himself from the solid rock exemplifying man's strength. Hoffman studied under reknown Syracuse sculptor in residence Ivan Mestrovic and played a role in convincing the Yugoslavian government to Mestrovic from prison. She also helped bring him to SU as a faculty member when the war ended. -
Supplicant Persephone
•Ivan Mestrovic, American 1883-1962 •Bronze, 8 inches, Shaffer Art Building exterior •Mestrovic has more works of art on campus than any other artist. He served as Syracuse artist in residence from 1946-1955 and helped create the Department of Sculpture.
Here Persephone, queen of the underworld, and daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology, stands, arms outstretched toward the sky pleading for release from the underworld. -
Job
•Ivan Mestrovic, American 1883-1962 •Bronze, 8 inches, Shaffer Art Building exterior •Job is one of Mestrovic's most famous works. It depicts Job's physical suffering at the hand of Satan. Mestrovic sketched the image while held in a Fascist prison during WWII. -
Croation Rhapsody
•Ivan Mestrovic, American, 1883-1962 •Marble, 36 x 32 inches, Sims Hall 1st floor •Mestrovic, a Croation sculptor, has been called one of the greatest Religious sculptors since the Renaissance. Here he is pictured with his sculpture in 1947. *photo courtesy of SU Archives -
Saltine Warrior
•Luise Meyers Kaish, American, b. 1925 •Bronze, 120 inches high, Orange Grove •Kaish, a student of Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, arranged for a member of the Onondaga Nation to pose for her statue. It was commissioned in 1951 by the Senior Class and placed at a bogus "discovery site" where remains of a 16th century Onondagan chief were rumored to be found. The Saltine Warrior was Syracuse University's mascot from 1950-1978 -
Moses
•Ivan Mestrovic, American 1883-1962 •Bronze, 12 inches high, Shaffer Art Building exterior •This Moses was intended as the central figure in a memorial to the 6 million Jews who were killed during World War II. •Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Giancola and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Spector. -
Socrates and his Disciples
•Ivan Mestrovic, American 1883-1962 •Bronze relief, 18 x 29 inches, College of Law interior -
Bust study for Mother and Child
•Ivan Mestrovic, American 1883-1962 •Bronze, 22 x 23 x 12 inches, Tolley 2nd floor -
Syracuse Nova
•Harry Bertoia, American 1915-1978 •Bronze and steel, 9ft x 5 ft, Huntington Beard Crouse interior, ceiling •Natural light enters from the north and south facing windows and is reflected by the numerous metal rods that make up the sculpture. These rods vary in length and intersect each other at many different angles, heightening the interplay of light and dark areas within the sculpture (SU Art Galleries). •A gift of Chi Omega Sorority, Upsilon Alpha Chapter -
Young Abraham Lincoln on Horseback
•Anna Hyatt Huntington, American 1876-1973 •Bronze, 13 ft x 5 ft x 12 ft, Exterior Bray Hall, ESF campus •Huntington and her husband also donated 6,000 acres to the forrestry school in 1932 and 1939. It is now known as the Huntington Wildlife Forrest. -
Birth of the Muses
•Jacques Lipchitz, French, 1891-1973 •Bronze relief, 7'6" x 5', S.I. Newhouse School I, foyer •The Birth of the Muses depicts Pegasus striking his hoofs on a rock on Mount Olympus, triggering the birth of the muses from four sprigs emerging from the contact. -
Moses
•Joseph Kiselewski, American, 1901-1986 •Terracotta, 12' high, White Hall exterior -
Dancing Mother
•Chaim Gross, American 1904-1991 •Bronze, 64 x 29 x 16 inches •Between Hinds Hall and Huntington Beard Crouse •Soon after immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, Chaim Gross began working with wood and then bronze. In Dancing Mother, Gross celebrates the connection between mother and child by combining both figures into one form. -
Syra I
•Rodger Mack, American, 1938-2002 •Bronze, 7'3 x 5'3 x 5' Corner of Comstock Ave. and Marshall Street •Photo courtesy of SU Art Galleries -
Weather Person
•David Perkins, American b. 1938 •Metal welded steel, 103 x 66 x 38" University Place between Schine Student Center and Bird Library. -
Sentinel
•Maxwell Chayat, American, 1908-1982 •Stainless steel, 52 inches high, Crouse College, northwest corner -
Floor Kite XIII
•Jasha Green, American, b. 1927 •Corten steel, 14 x 12 x 13 inches, Skytop Office exterior •Photo courtesy of SU Art Galleries -
Winter
•date unknown (1980s) •Rodger Mack, American 1938-2002 •Steel, 58 x 38 x 15 inches, exterior Comstack Art Facility -
Fall
*Date unknown (1980s) *Rodger Mack, American, 1938-2002 *Steel, 80 x 42 x 29 inches, Comstock Art Facility exterior -
Wheel
•Cort Savage, American, b. 1965 •8 feet in diameter, quad lawn outside Physics Building •Savage graduated from SU’s School of Art and Design. He won a competition to create a sculpture honoring Dr. William R. Fredrickson, Chairman of the Physics Department (1939-1965). •Wheel has a surface that is articulated with shapes reminiscent of simple tools. •Commissioned by the Physics Department. -
Banner
•Albert Paley, American b. 1944 •Steel, Orange Grove -
The Oracle's Tears
•Rodger Mack •Bronze, 180 x 52 x 25, Shaffer Art Building exterior •Rodger Mack was a long time professor of sculpture at Syracuse University. Oracle’s Tears is an example of his interest in fragmented architectural ruins, a subject that intrigued him during the 1990s. His travels had taken him through western Europe where he visited numerous archeological sites. •Gift of Joseph Lampe -
Delta Gamma
•Rodger Mack, American, 1938-2002 •Bronze, 11 ft x 8 ft x 4 ft 8 inches, between Hall of Languages and Huntington Beard Crouse. -
Six Curved Walls
•Sol LeWitt, American 1928-2007 •Concrete block, Crouse College lawn •LeWitt designed the walls as a gift to welcome Chancellor Nancy Cantor. -
Ernie Davis
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