• Sculpture of the week

    Sculpture of the week (November 26th, 2019)

    Union Square Subway Station Eagle Interior cast-stone shown with an antique dirty bronze finish     The eagle plaque sculpture  is a  bas relief and after a design by Grueby Faience Co 1904. Grueby custom made tiles and ornaments for the NYC subway stations, and at the Union Square (14th Street), Brooklyn Bridge, and 33rd Street stations these eagle plaques were installed in two slightly different configurations. All the ornamentation had been designed to help passengers recognize his or her station without the necessity of listening for the announcement or reading the signs. The Interborough Rapid Transit Subway, or IRT, was the first subway company in New York City, and…