The marble figures and fountains on either side of the main portico entrance of the New York City Public Library Main Branch, by Frederick MacMonnies, were installed in 1921. Plaster casts stood in place of the statues for nearly five years. Beauty, a woman seated on the winged horse Pegasus, representative of inspiration and elevation above worldly concerns. Above the figure is an inscription from the twenty-first stanza from American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier's The Shadow and the Light: BEAUTY / OLD YET EVER NEW / ETERNAL VOICE / AND INWARD WORD.Click for the url of the original New York City picture since the publisher asked.
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