The ''Untermyer Fountain'' is a memorial fountain with a

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

cast of Walter Schott's sculpture ''

Three Dancing Maidens ''Three Dancing Maidens'' () is a nymph fountain (Nymphenbrunnen) sculpture by Walter Schott. There are three full-size versions or casting, castings of the bronze sculpture. One is known as the ''Untermyer Fountain'' in Central Park in New Y ...

''. It is located in the

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in New York City.

Description and history

The ''Untermyer Fountain'' features a bronze cast of Walter Schott's ''Three Dancing Maidens'', completed in Germany prior to 1910. Named after American lawyer and civic leader

Samuel Untermyer Samuel Untermyer (March 6, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a prominent American lawyer and civic leader. He is also remembered for bequeathing his Yonkers, New York estate, now known as Untermyer Park, to the people of New York State. Life Samu ...

, the fountain was donated to the park by his children, Irwin Untermyer, Alvin Untermyer, and Irene Richter, following his death in 1940. Originally, the sculpture was located at his estate "Greystone" in

Yonkers, New York Yonkers () is the List of municipalities in New York, third-most populous city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and the most-populous City (New York), city in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County. A centrally locate ...

, part of which is now owned by the City of Yonkers and known as Untermyer Park. The fountain was installed in Central Park in 1947 and is most easily accessed from the North Garden entrance at 106th Street and Fifth Avenue or the main entrance at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue. ''Three Dancing Maidens'' depicts three young women, holding hands in a circle, "whose dresses cling to their wet bodies as if they were perpetually in the fountain's spray". The fountain includes three jets: two on the oval pool's sides and a larger one in the center of the sculpture. The sculpture sits on a limestone base.

Reception

The fountain has been included in guidebooks and walking tours of Central Park.

References

External links

Untermyer Gardens Tour May 26, 2012
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