Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Monument

You are standing before the Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Monument, a work that fundamentally changed the trajectory of American public art. Before this bronze figure arrived in eighteen eighty-one, most statues in the country relied on stiff, neoclassical poses, often dressing historical figures in Roman togas. Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens broke that convention entirely by depicting the Civil War naval commander in his accurate, wind-swept uniform, with his feet braced as if he were actually standing on the heaving deck of a ship during battle.