The Immigrants - NYC, NY - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The Smithsonian Inventory (visit link) provides the description of this bronze work by Luis Sanguino:

"A group of seven adults and one baby conceived of as a processional of new arrivals. The sculpture includes references to different ethnic groups --an Eastern European Jew bent forward in prayer leads a family, a priest, a worker, and an African depicted as a freed slave. Sanguino's figures are anatomically distorted with dramatic gesters and coarse surface texture to convey the struggles of the immigrants."

and provides the inscription"

"SANGUINO (On horizontal surface on east side of base:) DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS/WHO ENTERED AMERICA THROUGH CASTLE GARDEN/IN MEMORY OF/SAMUEL RUDIN/1896-1975/WHOSE PARENTS ARRIVED IN AMERICA IN 1883 signed"

TITLE: The Immigrants ARTIST(S): Luis Sanguino DATE: 1983 MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite and concrete. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 87870001 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Battery Park Manhattan NYC, NY, USA DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: No differences noticed.

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