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Beauty (1921)

by Frederick McMonnies, New York Public Library (1902–11), Midtown,476 Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, Bryant Park,Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Architect: Carrère and Hastings

Beauty is depicted seated on Pegasus. Above is inscribed: Beauty, old yet ever new!/Eternal Voice and Inward Word (John Greenleaf Whitter, The Shadow and the Light).

The model for the statue was Audrey Munson.

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