The Beehive Bridge is a vibrant display of yellow and orange hues, with metal detailing that highlights the overt allusion to a beehive, emblematic of the Bee mascot of the industrious city of New Britain. The bridge’s side panels create a “honeycomb” shape of fluid curved motion. There are also abstract sculptures of bees on […]

This Sculpture, completed by John Paulding in 1929, stands in Raymond Park of East Hartford to commemorate the soldiers who fought in World War I. The large bronze sculpture features a male soldier standing in an asymmetrical position, as if he were “ready” to begin motion once again. He holds a rifle in his left hand […]

“El Monumento a la Familia Puertorriqueña” (Monument to the Puerto Rican Family) celebrates Puerto Rico’s migrant families in the United States of America.  The front of the two-sided monument is a high-relief bronze sculpture showing four heroic scale figures representing a husband and a wife with their daughter and their son who carries the official […]

The Hartford Black Lives Matter street painting was created on July 26, 2020 as part of the nationwide protest movement “Black Lives Matter” that erupted following the wide media circulation of cell-phone images of the May 25, 2020 strangulation of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin. The […]

The Kensington Soldiers Monument by Nelson Augustus Moore was created in July, 1863 while the Civil War was still being fought. It was one of the earliest Civil War monuments and the first in Connecticut. Egyptian style obelisks were the accepted form of memorial monuments up to the mid-1860s following a tradition established in France […]

Carl Andre’s Stone Field sculpture is a triangular arrangement of thirty-six boulders of varying material in eight rows placed on a sloping site in the heart of the city. The conception for this site sculpture is two-fold. On the one hand, its formal arrangement was inspired by the tombstones in the adjacent Center Church Cemetery and […]

Calder’s Stegosaurus is exemplary of his “stabiles” produced after 1937. Named for a dinosaur from the Wyoming and Colorado regions, Calder’s Stegosaurus is the culmination of a sixty-six year project which began with a grant to the city of Hartford by Ella Burr McManus.  According to Mrs. McManus’ wishes, “the most gifted and competent sculptor […]

Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Archdiocese of Connecticut. The building at 955 Main Street is an historic gothic revival design of the 1820’s by the architect Ithiel Town, who also designed the original castellated Wadsworth Atheneum. The Morgan family were devout Episcopalians and were closely associated with Episcopal archdiocese of […]

The statue at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT depicts Doctor Gallaudet and His First Deaf Mute Pupil. It was designed in 1888 by artist Daniel Chester French and was originally cast in 1889 for the campus of Gallaudet University in Washington D.C.. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a pioneer in education for […]

The Connecticut Veterans Memorial in West Hartford is dedicated to all Armed Services members who served in America’s wars from King Philip’s War (1675) to the 21st Century Global War on Terror. The monument was designed in 2002-2003 by Vincent Stryeski of Kaestle Boos Associates, New Britain. Stryeski and a group of summer interns at […]