Share your city's public sculptures of naked people

[Cirrus]

Statues of naked people: The highest form of art and culture in urban design. Share what you've got!

Guidelines of the thread:

1. There will be images of naked human figures in this thread. If that's not your cup of tea, kindly navigate elsewhere.

2. Do not be a creep. No posting naked living humans. No going off the deep end of gross comments that nobody outside a middle school locker room would want to read. I will not hesitate to moderate dipshit posts or delete the thread if y'all can't contain yourselves.

3. Subjects should be naked or nearly naked. Given American prudishness and the fact that there are few totally naked statues in our cities, it's OK to share statues that are mostly nude but not entirely. Some strategically placed drapery is OK. But exercise judgement and don't overwhelm the thread with subjects that are obviously nowhere close to being nude.

4. There is no need to be semantic about what's a "statue." Caryatids, friezes, and other similar sculpted figures are all fine for this thread.

5. This thread is about public sculptures, meaning they should be located in places where the public can see them. Inside or outside are both fine, but not private statuettes in somebody's fenced off backyard.

Got it? Good. Let's go.

[Cirrus]

Here are some examples from DC:

Dupont Circle fountain:






The McMillan fountain:




Duke Ellington Bridge:




Darlington fountain:




Meridian Hill Park:




Inside the main reading room at the Library of Congress:




The Neptune fountain outside the LoC:

[BnaBreaker]

I'm sure there are others, but when I think of naked statues in Nashville, I think of Musica, which features a whole gaggle of spirited streakers:

[sopas ej]

Here are the nude male and female sculptures in front of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, commissioned for the 1984 Summer Olympics; the artist is Robert Graham. Real athletes posed for them. As a teen, I remember being intrigued because at the time, I saw a local TV news piece where they interviewed the male athlete a few days before those Games started.


Public domain, Wikipedia

[muertecaza]

There are a number that surround the Herberger Theater in Phoenix:

[jmecklenborg]

Originally Posted by BnaBreaker

I'm sure there are others, but when I think of naked statues in Nashville, I think of Musica, which features a whole gaggle of spirited streakers:

1-2 years ago someone put a traffic cone on one of their heads.

[chris08876]

The Time Warner Center in NYC has the Adam and Eve statues.

While not outdoors, there's a big public area within the center, and a mall. They are right at the base near the escalators.




Via: n3wy0rkc1ty.blogspot


There is also one in Grand Army Plaza known as the Lady of the Plaza.

[hauntedheadnc]

In 2021, Greenville hosted an exhibit of bronze statues by Mexican artist Jorge Marin called Wings of the City, which consisted of several bronze statues placed around downtown and in Falls Park. These complemented a pair of statues on permanent display which depict a little nudity.











Those were all photos I took, but I think my favorite photo of Wings of the City is this one, by a local photographer:


Source.

[TempleGuy1000]

One of the more famous ones in Philadelphia is 'Diana'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_(Saint-Gaudens))

While Philadelphia's 'The Thinker' was one of the first larger cast versions of the statue, the Rodin Museum has one of the original casts of the 'Gates of Hell', which is where the The Thinker originates from.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell

A local favorite is the Swann Memorial Fountain by Alexander Calder



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swann_Memorial_Fountain

[muppet]

London's got them everywhere, all over the buildings -one of the biggest complaints from feminists being the female body has long been used as decoration here.

Some of the more famous ones.

Eros in Piccadilly Circus is a famous meeting point. In the 80s it was slightly sullied as the favoured spot to meet your next trick, for the rentboys from next-door sex district, Soho.




Above him, the Golden Nudes




V&A's David






Achilles Statue, Hyde Park




Physical Energy, Hyde Park




Boy with a Dolphin





Girl with a Dolphin




The Naked Ladies, Twickenham House




Butler's Wharf fountain




Zimbabwe House -mutilated statues. They were controversial from the start, but after a head fell off, missing pedestrians (thanks to acid rain), all protruderences were hacked off




BBC House -the statue of Aerial was recently attacked with a hammer, following protests. The famous, much-celebrated sculptor was revealed as notorious criminal behind closed doors, notably against his daughters. Now facing a reckoning.

Now behind glass, and a part of the 'statue wars'




St James Park building (tube HQ) is also festooned with his sculptures, that were controversial at the time for their sensuality






Mary Woolstonecroft statue was much derided and ridiculed, for celebrating the first feminist with an awkward, tiny nude of her




Soho Square -why???








Golden Square, Soho




Atalanta, Chelsea Embankment




Broadgate Venus