Brooklyn Botanic Garden Sculptures – Brooklyn NY

City:
Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

“In the rotunda of the [Laboratory Building] are bronze busts of Linnaeus, Darwin, Mendel, Asa Gray, Robert Brown, and John Torrey–the work of WPA sculptors.”

Source notes

The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s New York. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982: 488.

Location Info

1000 Washington Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225

Coordinates: 40.6675708, -73.96190

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