Pulitzer Fountain

Pulitzer Fountain
The fountain and statue in 2014
Map
Artist
Year1916 (1916)
Type
  • Fountain
  • sculpture
Medium
  • Bronze
  • marble
SubjectPomona
Dimensions6.7 m (22 ft)
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Coordinates40°45′51″N 73°58′25″W / 40.76403°N 73.97361°W / 40.76403; -73.97361

Pulitzer Fountain is an outdoor fountain located in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza in New York. The fountain is named after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer who died in 1911 having bequeathed $50,000 for the creation of the fountain. Pulitzer intended his fountain to be "like those in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France."[1] The fountain was designed by the architect Thomas Hastings, and crowned by a statue conceived by the sculptor Karl Bitter.[2] The fountain was dedicated in May 1916.

  1. ^ Landmark Preservation Commission (23 July 1974). "LP-0860" (PDF). NYC Landmark Designation Reports. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  2. ^ Ferdinand Schevill, Karl Bitter, a Biography (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1917), pages 65-67.