Father Duffy (sculpture)

Father Duffy
The sculpture in 2012
Artist Charles Keck
Year 1936–1937 (1936–1937)
Type Sculpture
Location New York City, New York
Coordinates 40°45′33″N 73°59′06″W / 40.759045°N 73.984987°W / 40.759045; -73.984987Coordinates: 40°45′33″N 73°59′06″W / 40.759045°N 73.984987°W / 40.759045; -73.984987

Father Duffy, or Father Francis P. Duffy, is an outdoor 1936–1937 sculpture of the soldier, priest and military chaplain of the same name by Charles Keck, installed at Duffy Square, in Manhattan's Times Square, in the U.S. state of New York.[1] The statue, which was dedicated on May 2, 1937,[2] earned Keck a Grand Lodge Medal for Distinguished Achievement from the Masonic order.[3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ Wingate, Jennifer (2013). Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America's World War I Memorials. Ashgate Publishing. p. 143. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Father Francis P. Duffy, (sculpture)". siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Gardner, Albert TenEyck (1965). American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, 1968
  • Media related to Father Duffy by Charles Keck at Wikimedia Commons
  • "Father Francis P. Duffy - New York City, NY". Waymarking.
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