Convention-Defying in Life. In Art, Not So Much

Carving Out History” offers the career highlights of Emma Stebbins, from the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park — a powerful ...
Long Island Press

Heckscher Museum unveils first-ever exhibition of Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Bethesda Fountain

Few visitors to New York City may realize that the angel atop Central Park’s iconic Bethesda Fountain was created by a woman: Emma Stebbins, a 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor whose career ...
Hyperallergic

The Queer History of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history throughout June. Off to one side of the Bethesda Terrace, one of the most ...
insider.si.edu

Bethesda Fountain (Fountain in Central Park), (painting)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection printout, 2008. Smithsonian Institution Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Independence Avenue at 8th Street, S.W Washington District of Columbia ...