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Ferera (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  See ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/the-tigress-and... for the statue. Also www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/1547 "Cast at the F. Bardienne Foundry in Paris, Tigress and Cubs was presented in 1867 to the Board of Commissioners of Central Park by twelve New York citizens, including artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872). The piece was placed in a wooded area on a rock outcropping near the lake. In 1934, it was relocated to the Central Park Zoo, and after the 1988 renovation of the zoo, it took its current position in a protected setting between the Intelligence Garden and the Tropical Zone. In 1996, the Central Park Conservancy’s Sculpture Conservation Program conserved the statue. Though real tigers no longer roam the Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center, Cain’s masterful bronze continues to delight zoo patrons."

• Art Siegel said:

  See

• swanq said:

  See another performer posing on the same sculture: