An
Inventory of Rochester NY's Landmark Sculpture, Monuments, and Memorials
Public Art Catalog
This is a listing of all the public art pieces in the catalog. Feel free to browse around or view the slideshow of all the images. Click a category to sort by that category.
There are currently 158 art pieces in the catalog.
| Image | Art Title | Artist's Name | Description | Location |
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Main Street Bridge Railings | Albert Paley | 10 elaborate railing segments | Main Street Bridge across the Genesee River, Downtown |
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Another Little Adventure | Nancy Gong | 2 leaded glass windows | Rochester Ferry Terminal, 4791 Lake Avenue |
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Penguins | Blanca Will | 3 Bronze penguins | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Ferry Terminal Paintings | Nicholas Agnello | 3 paintings representing historic scenes | Rochester Ferry Terminal, 4791 Lake Avenue |
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Maplewood Arch | Dejan Pejovic | 3 steel arches joined at the peak, connected by cables | Lake Avenue at Ridge Road |
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Bridge Flower | Mark & Diane Weisbeck | 4 lighted sculptures on each of three bridges | Ames, Child and Saxton Street bridges over Rte 490 |
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Rochester Project | Richard Fleischner | 6 part site-specific Installation in a riverside park | Charles Carroll Plaza, Andrews Street at the Genesee River |
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Monroe Gateway | Guy Chiazza | A "Gateway" sculpture that includes objects found in the neighborhood by by children | The corner of Monroe Avenue and Laburnam Crescent |
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Cat and Bird | Vincent Massaro | A bird and cat modeled after student sculptures. | Rochester City School #23, 170 Barrington Street |
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ARTWalk Cat | Vincent Massaro | A concrete cat on a base, with a time capsule sealed inside | Corner of Merriman and University Avenue |
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Dragonslayer | Jim Gary | A dinosaur skeleton sculpture | Canal View Office Park, Canal View Boulevard |
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Planter and Bench | Paul Knoblauch | A fanciful bench and planter | 80 Cascade Drive |
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Welcome to Brockport | Helen Smagorinsky | A former commercial billboard transformed into a public art project | Main Street South. at the RR overpass |
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Big Picture Rochester | Kenichiro Sato | A giant photo-mural | Former Sibley's Department Store Windows, Main Street, and other locations dowtown Rochester |
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Schiller Monument | Carl August Heber | A glowering bronze bust | Schiller Park - Andrews Street at Franklin Street |
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Threshold of the Dawn | David Stephanus | A grove of twisted tree-like shapes | 100 North Chestnut Street |
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Prometheus | Zarub Tsereteli | A heroic - though tilting - figure reaching for a starburst | In front of the SUNY Brockport Administration Building, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY |
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Chubby | Vincent Massaro | A horse and fireman representing the last fire horse in Rochester | In front of Craft Company #6, on University Avenue |
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The Monument | Peter McGrain | A huge dichroic glass window that dominates the center of the observation area | Rochester International Airport, 1200 Brooks Avenue |
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Airborne Stabile | Susan Ferrari Rowley | A kite-like hanging fabric sculpture | Rochester International Airport |
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Wallana | Deborah Butterfield | A larger than life horse that looks like it's made of twisted branches | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Liberty Pole | James Johnson | A modern interpretation of a traditional liberty pole | Liberty Pole Plaza, at the corner of Main and Franklin Streets |
| Sundial | Alistair Bevikngton | A modern sundial, designed by an architect | In the Residence Quad, Rochester Institute of Technology | |
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The Elders | Bill Stewart | A pair of ceramic sculptures | Seldon Street, in Grove Place |
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Sound/Play Sculptures | Bill & Mary Buchen | A playground featuring big ears, eyes, a gong, slapped pipes, twist, wind reeds and parabolic benches | Manhattan Square Park, Chestnut Street at Woodbury Boulevard |
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Skystone 6 | Glenn Zweygardt | A polished stone elevated to emphasize its importance | In front of the SUNY Brockport Fine Art Building on Holly Street, Brockport |
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Every Wall Falls Eventually | Unknown | A segment of the Berlin Wall, covered with graffiti | Winter Garden, Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place |
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Tiffany Windows | Tiffany Studio | A series of Tiffany windows | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 North Fitzhugh Street |
| Seventh Spirit | Dexter Benedict | A small bronze angel | Unknown, stolen from 164 Gibbs Street, in Grove Place | |
| Les Racines et les Raisons | Jennifer Hecker | A steel sculpture representing a bed incorporating images depicting Brockport's history. | Remembrance Park, at Park and High Streets | |
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ADZ/Pick | Brad Spencer | A stone a pick suspended in a frame structure | Canal View Office Park, Canal View Boulevard |
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Pharaoh | Leonard Urso | A tall, elegant, slightly ominous figure standing among the trees | Eastman Place, Gibbs at Main Street |
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Sentinel | Albert Paley | A towering display of Paley's superb skill | Administration Circle, Rochester Institute of Technology |
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Totem Pole | Walter Harris & Art Sterrit | A traditional Indian totem pole, carved on site | Present location is unknown |
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Webster Street Garden | David Merkel | A triangular urban oasis with paths, benches, flowers and landscaping, transformed from a littered empty lot in a transitional neighborhood | The corner of Webster and Goodman Streets |
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Fireman's Monument | H.S. Hebard | A uniformed figure atop a pedestal overlooking the fireman's section | Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue |
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Tribute to Man | Kerro Bruegging | A walkway and observation tower suspended over a sunken fountain area with a concert stage | Howard Hanson Plaza in Manhattan Square Park Chestnut Street at Court Street |
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Playground Bench | Paul Knoblauch | A whimsical bench by an artist who works in The Neighborhood of the Arts | Meriman Street at University Avenue, in the Neighborhood of the Arts |
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Weary Pilgrim | Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti | Aaron Erickson's tomb by Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti | Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue |
| Dancers | Peter Macon | Abstract steel dancers | 10 Seldon Street, in Grove Place | |
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Threshold | Albert Paley | An abstract steel sculpture that looks like a giant erector set fantasy | At Klein Steel Corporation , 105 Vanguard Parkway |
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Merchants Road Mural | Rick Muto | An active neighborhood scene painted on the side of a building | The intersection of Merchants and Culver Roads |
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Present Passage | Larry Kirkland | An armillary suspended above a map of the world etched into the floor | Lobby, Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place |
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Henry Lomb Memorial | Walter H. Cassebeer | An art deco obelisk | Upper Falls Blvd. at St. Paul Street |
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Cascade Drive Bench | Paul Knoblauch | An artist's bench that mimics the now renovated industrial buildings in the Cascade District | On Cascade Drive, opposite Bemis Alley |
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Legal Wall Graffiti | An impressive display of very creative and energetic graffiti applied to backs of buildings | Behind 200 Anderson Avenue, in the Neighborhood of the Arts | |
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Cathy Feinen Student Sculpture Garden | Students | Animal fantasies cast in bronze | Rochester City School #23, 170 Barrington Street |
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Vertical Ventaglio | Beverly Pepper | Animated falling squares suggesting motion or a sequence | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Wings of Progress | Ralph T. Walker | Art deco wings at the peak of the building | Times Square Building, Broad and Exchange Streets |
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Gannett Building Relief | Unknown | Bas-relief panel with classical figures | Gannett Building at the corner of Broad and Exchange Streets |
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Trust and Security | Jesse Corbin | Bas-relief sculpture | Times Square Building, 45 Exchange Boulevard |
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Omega ii | Beverly Pepper | Basic geometric forms that change their relationship as you view them from different angles | Canal View Office Park, Canal View Boulevard |
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Poet's Garden | Benches inscribed with poetry along a wooded path | Highland Park, opposite the Lamberton Conservatory | |
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Rochester Landmarks | Richard Margolis | Big B&W photographs of Rochester landmarks | Rochester International Airport, 1200 Brooks Avenue |
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Zakor (Remember) | David Klass | Broken menorah & barbed wire | Courtyard, Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Avenue |
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Passenger Pigeon | Todd McGrain | Bronze bird near the ARTWalk Bus Shelter | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
| Austin Steward Bust | Calvin Hubbard | Bronze bust | 2nd Floor - Clarion Hotel Riverside, 120 Main Street East | |
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Messenger | Dexter Benedict | Bronze figurative sculpture | Corporate Woods Office Park |
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Workman Poet | Dexter Benedict | Bronze figurative sculpture | Corporate Woods Office Park |
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Zeus | Dexter Benedict | Bronze figurative sculpture | Corporate Woods Office Park |
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Frederick Douglass | Sidney Wells Edwards | Bronze figure | Highland Park, Resevoir at South Avenue |
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Children in the Hand of God | Dexter Benedict | Bronze hand holding a boy with a Torah and a girl | Temple Brith Kodesh - Courtyard |
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Civil War Monument | Sallie Farnham | Bronze monument of a soldier and boy | Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue |
| Family Tree | Eddie Davis | Bronze narrative sculpture | Lamberton Conservatory, in Highland Park | |
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Morrie Silver | Dejan Pejovic | Bronze sculpture of Morrie Silver with his arm around a kid with a bat & glove | North Plymouth Avenue at Morrie Silver Way on Platt Street |
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Edward Mott Moore | Thomas Hudson Jones | Bronze seated figure looking toward the river | Genesee Valley Park |
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Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 1 | Henry Moore | Bronze segments that resemble vertebrae | Rochester Institute of Technology |
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Engineers Have Fun Too | Nancy Gong | Bus shelter | In front of Gleason Works, 1000 University Avenue |
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Let Me Be Your Shelter | John & Laurie Grieco | Bus shelter | 822 University Avenue |
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Six Cubes | William Sellers | Carefully balanced arrangement of polished cubes | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Growth of Man | Joe Hendrick | Carved panels with symbols on the facade | Virgil I. Grissom School #7, 31 Bryan Street at Dewey Avenue |
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Birdman | Dexter Benedict | Cast Bronze | Corporate Woods Office Park |
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The Council | Bill Stewart | Ceramic animal-like figures in a pool | Rochester International Airport, 1200 Brooks Avenue |
| Lady Rochester | Nancy Jurs | Ceramic sculpture | Linden Oaks Office Park, 400 Linden Oaks | |
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Emergence (two sculptures) | Nancy Jurs | Ceramic sculpture with vaguely human form | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Animal Totem | John Dempsey | Chain saw sculpture based on student's pictures of animals | Rochester City School #23, 170 Barrington Street |
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Lunar Eclipse | Wendell Castle | Clock on top of a misaligned segmented column | Rochester International Airport (Storage), 1200 Brooks Avenue |
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Children At Play | Sylvia Reid Davis | Designed by Sylvia Davis, fabricated by Mark McDermott | School of the Arts, Prince Street at University Avenue |
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War Memorial Eagle | Carl Paul Jennewein | Eagle breaking chains that are falling away | War Memorial Plaza, near Court Street |
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Laura D. Knapp Monument | Stonecarvers Collaborative | Elaborately carved stone marker | Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue |
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Untitled (Sculpture) | Albert Paley | Fabricated corten steel | The Strong Museum, Woodbury Boulevard |
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School of Fish | Paul Knoblauch | Fabricated steel fish and a weather vane | Rochester Ferry Terminal, 4791 Lake Avenue |
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Josephine Baker Bench | Paul Knoblauch | Fanciful bench with teak seat with abstract metal curlicues | Corner of Gibbs and University Avenue |
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Thought | Dexter Benedict | Figurative sculpture, waiting outside the entrance | Corporate Woods Office Park |
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Dream | Dexter Benedict | Figure waiting at the door | Corporate Woods Office Park |
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Prophets | Leonard Urso | Five elegantly slender figures | On the balcony, Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place |
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Woman with Curlers | Albert Leon Wilson | Folded steel sketch of woman with flowing hair | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Bette Midler Bench | Paul Knoblauch | Forged steel bench with a wave-like pattern back and teak slat seat | Gibbs Street at University Avenue, in the Grove Place |
| Seat of Forgetting and Remembering | Adriana Ippel Slutzky | Four columns covered with over 600 impressions of faces and hands | Along the trail above Lower Falls, behind the YMCA | |
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Industry, Geography, Astronomy and Navigation | Unknown | Four marble figures surrounded by evergreens | University of Rochester, near Meliora Hall |
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U of R Untitled | Arch Miller | Geologic forms protruding from the earth, at the entrance of the studio art building | Joseph Wilson Drive, University of Rochester |
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George Elwanger Tomb | Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti | George Elwaner's tomb in M.t Hope Cemetery | Mt. Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mount Hope Avenue |
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Mask | Bill Stewart | Glazed terra cotta mask peering down from a wall | Seldon Street, in Grove Place |
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Bus Transfer by the Dixie Wig | Ruth Manning | Handwoven tapestry | Rochester International Airport (Storage), 1200 Brooks Avenue |
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Three Forms | Roy Gussow | Interlocking triangular forms on a marble base | Xerox Building, 1 Xerox Square |
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Two Lines Up Eccentric Twelve Feet | George Rickey | Kinetic sculpture that responds to the slightest breeze | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue |
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Massaro Sculpture Garden | Vincent Massaro | Landscaped yard with fabricated elements, vines, tree debris, and anonymous donations | The intersection of Canterbury Road and Harvard Street |
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Metamorphosis | Wendell Castle | Lighted wall relief | Winter Garden, Bausch & Lomb, One Bausch & Lomb Place |
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George Eastman Memorial | Leo Friedlander | Marble pillar with 2 figures | Kodak Park, 1700 Lake Avenue, near Ridge Road |
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Mercury | J. Guernsey Mitchell | Messenger on top of the Aquaduct Building | Aquaduct Street, Between Main and Broad Streets |