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{{Short description|Sculpture in Manhattan, New York, U.S.}}
[[File:Eleanor Roosevelt Monument - 2017-12-02 - Statue view from North.jpg|thumb|The bronze statue, granite boulder and footstone, sculpted by [[Penelope Jencks]]]]
The '''Eleanor Roosevelt Monument''' is located at the southeast corner of [[New York City]]'s [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]], and is the first work of public art in New York City dedicated to an American woman. Its centerpiece is a bronze statue of [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].<ref name="nyt-1996-10-05"/> [[Hillary Clinton]] (First Lady at the time) gave the keynote address at the monument's dedication on October 5, 1996.<ref name="nyt-1996-10-05">{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=October 5, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/05/nyregion/eleanor-roosevelt-honored-in-hometown-today.html |title=Eleanor Roosevelt Honored in Hometown Today |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref>▼
The '''Eleanor Roosevelt Monument''' is located at the southeast corner of [[New York City]]'s [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]]. It was the first work of public art in New York City to be dedicated to an American woman and, according to the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund, which provided much of the funding for the project, it was the first work of public art to be dedicated to an American president's wife. The
▲The '''Eleanor Roosevelt Monument''' is located at the southeast cornercenterpiece of [[New York City]]'s [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]], and is the first work of public art in New York City dedicated to an American woman. Its centerpiecemonument is a bronze statue of [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].<ref name="nyt-1996-10-05"/> [[Hillary Clinton]] (Firstthe Lady[[first lady]] at the time) gave the keynote address at the monument's dedication on October 5, 1996.<ref name="nyt-1996-10-05">{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=October 5, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/05/nyregion/eleanor-roosevelt-honored-in-hometown-today.html |title=Eleanor Roosevelt Honored in Hometown Today |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref>
 
==Design==
The landscape architects [[Bruce Kelly (landscape architect)|Bruce Kelly and David Varnell]] designed a circular, elevated bed ofplanted with oak trees as a setting for a bronze statue of Roosevelt leaning against a granite boulder, both sculpted by [[Penelope Jencks]]. The architect [[Michael Middleton Dwyer|Michael Dwyer]] designed two granite medallions, set into the surrounding bluestone paving, (one inscribed with quotationsa quotation from a 1958 speech of Roosevelt's; andthe other with a quotation from [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]]'s 1962 eulogy for her.), He designedand a bronze plaque, located in the tree bed, summarizing her many achievements.<ref>Jean Parker Phifer, ''Public Art New York'' (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009).</ref>
 
Jencks, who was chosen by a nationwide competition, took four years to complete the work. Douglas Martin, reporting for ''The New York Times'' in 1995, wrote that she took so long because she "was determined to do everything just so." According to Martin,
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File:Elroos72st.JPG|The statue of Eleanor Roosevelt seen from the northeast.
File:Eleanor Roosevelt Statue.jpg|The statue of Eleanor Roosevelt seen from the northwest.
File:Eleanor Roosevelt Monument - 2017-12-02 - StatueAdlai viewStevenson from NorthQuote.jpg|TheGranite bronzemedallion statue,inscribed granitewith boulder[[Adlai andStevenson footstoneII|Adali Stevenson]]'s quote, sculpteddesigned by [[PenelopeMichael JencksMiddleton Dwyer|Michael Dwyer]].
File:Eleanor Roosevelt MonumentMMDA-Photos - 2017-1208-0213 - AdlaiBiographical StevensonPlaque, Quote.jpg|GraniteEleanor medallionRoosevelt inscribedMemorial, withRiverside AdlaiPark, Stevenson'sNew quoteYork City.jpg|Eleanor Roosevelt Biographical Plaque, designed by [[Michael Middleton Dwyer|Michael Dwyer]].
File:Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Biographical Plaque.jpg|Eleanor Roosevelt Biographical Plaque, designed by [[Michael Middleton Dwyer|Michael Dwyer]].
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