List of public art in Newark, New Jersey

This is a list of public art in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space and does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics. Many statues were erected in the early 20th century during the City Beautiful Movement and were concentrated in the city's original three commons, or town squares, and the county courthouse.^[1]

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Wikidata	Notes
	An Historical Incident of November, 1764 aka Captive's Choice	Lincoln Park 40°43′35″N 74°10′45″W / 40.72646°N 74.17921°W / 40.72646; -74.17921	1884 dedicated 1895	Chauncey Ives	Statue			NRHP contributing property	City of Newark		^[2]^[3]
	Behold	Essex County College 40°44′19″N 74°10′42″W / 40.7387°N 74.1784°W / 40.7387; -74.1784 (Behold)	1990	Patrick Morelli	Statue	Bronze			State of New Jersey		^[4]^[5]
	Bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Military Park 40°44′17″N 74°10′13″W / 40.73801°N 74.17041°W / 40.73801; -74.17041 (Bust of JF Kennedy)	1965	Jacques Lipchitz	Bust			NRHP contributing property	City of Newark
	Fairmount Heights Switching Station	Fairmont 40°44′48″N 74°11′34″W / 40.74667°N 74.19278°W / 40.74667; -74.19278	2018	Adjaye Associates and 14 others	Murals and colonnade	Various	30 feet (9.1 m) "art wall'		Public Service Enterprise Group	^[6]
More images	First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark	Grounds of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center near NJPAC/Center Street station 40°44′22″N 74°09′58″W / 40.73941°N 74.16613°W / 40.73941; -74.16613	1916	Gutzon Borglum	Monument	Marble	9 feet (2.7 m) tall	NRHP	City of Newark	Q65059284	^[7]
	Indian and the Puritan	Washington Park 40°44′39″N 74°10′12″W / 40.744264°N 74.170077°W / 40.744264; -74.170077 (Indian and the Puritan)	1916	Gutzon Borglum	Monument	Marble and bronze lamp standard		NRHP	City of Newark	Q14705651	^[7]
	Ironbound Immigrants Memorial Monument	Peter Francisco Park Ironbound at Penn Station 40°43′59″N 74°09′50″W / 40.73300°N 74.16401°W / 40.73300; -74.16401	2018	Camilo Satiro	Sculpture	Granite	16 feet (4.9 m) tall 25 feet (7.6 m) long 9 feet (2.7 m) wide weight: 2 tons.				^[8]^[9]
More images	Justice	Government Center 40°43′48″N 74°10′23″W / 40.72987°N 74.17302°W / 40.72987; -74.17302 (Justice)	1991	Diana K. Moore	Sculpture	Concrete	11 ft (3.4 m) tall, 8.8 ft (2.7 m) wide, 9 ft (2.7 m) long			Q14705682
More images	Philip Kearny	Military Park 40°44′22″N 74°10′08″W / 40.73944°N 74.16888°W / 40.73944; -74.16888 (Philip Kearny)	1880	Henry Kirke Brown	Statue	Bronze		NRHP contributing property	City of Newark		^[10]
	Newark Light Rail	various stations		multiple including Willie Cole, Grigory Gurevich	Murals, sculptures
	Newark Murals: {Portraits}	Stone viaduct of the Northeast Corridor facing McCarter Highway 40°43′30″N 74°10′28″W / 40.72495°N 74.17432°W / 40.72495; -74.17432 (Portraits)	2016	multiple	Mural		1.39 miles (2.24 km) long				^[11]^[12]^[13]
More images	Planting the Standard of Democracy	Lincoln Park 40°43′37″N 74°10′39″W / 40.72693°N 74.17758°W / 40.72693; -74.17758	1923	Charles Henry Niehaus	Statue	Bronze		NRHP contributing property			^[14]^[3]
	Prudential Lions	Essex County Courthouse 40°44′15″N 74°10′47″W / 40.737518°N 74.179637°W / 40.737518; -74.179637 (Prudential Lions)	1901	Karl Bitter	Statue	Limestone		NRHP (contributing property)			Originally created for Prudential Headquarters Home Office
More images	Seated Lincoln	Essex County Courthouse 40°44′14″N 74°10′41″W / 40.73709°N 74.17792°W / 40.73709; -74.17792 (Seated Lincoln)	1911	Gutzon Borglum	Statue	Bronze		NRHP		Q7441987	^[7]^[15]
	Shadow of a Face	Harriet Tubman Square 40°44′36″N 74°10′12″W / 40.74345°N 74.16989°W / 40.74345; -74.16989 (A Shadow of a Face)	2023	Nina Cooke John	Sculpture		25 feet (7.6 m) tall x 40 feet (12 m) wide		City of Newark		^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]
More images	Statute of Bartolomeo Colleoni	Lincoln Park 40°43′36″N 74°10′48″W / 40.72661°N 74.18011°W / 40.72661; -74.18011 (Statute of Bartolomeo Colleoni)	1916	J. Massey Rhind after Andrea del Verrocchio	Statue	Bronze	45 feet (14 m) tall	NRHP contributing property	City of Newark		Inspired by the Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni^[20]^[21]^[22] ^[3]
	Statue of Christopher Columbus	Washington Park 40°44′36″N 74°10′12″W / 40.74345°N 74.16989°W / 40.74345; -74.16989 (Statue of Christopher Columbus)	1927 removed 2020	Giuseppe Ciochetti	Statue	Bronze		NRHP contributing property	City of Newark		^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]
	Statue of George Floyd	Newark City Hall 40°43′54″N 74°10′26″W / 40.73178°N 74.17401°W / 40.73178; -74.17401 (Statue of George Floyd)	2021	Stanley J. Watts	Statue	Bronze				Q107404474
	Statue of Hockey Player	Prudential Center 40°44′05″N 74°10′11″W / 40.73472°N 74.16983°W / 40.73472; -74.16983 (Iceman)	2009	Jon Krawczyk	Statue	Stainless steel	22-foot (6.7 m) tall
	Statue of Martin Luther King Jr.	Essex County Courthouse 40°44′13″N 74°10′47″W / 40.73690°N 74.17984°W / 40.73690; -74.17984 (Statue of MLK, Jr.)	2015 and 2021	Jay Warren	Sculpture	Bronze			Essex County
	The Commuters	Penn Station 40°44′5″N 74°9′51″W / 40.73472°N 74.16417°W / 40.73472; -74.16417 (The Commuters)	1984	Grigory Gurevich	Sculpture	Bronze
	Truth and Power	Essex County Courthouse 40°44′13″N 74°10′42″W / 40.73708°N 74.17842°W / 40.73708; -74.17842 (Truth and Power)	1906	Andrew O'Connor	Companion Sculpture	Bronze			Essex County
More images	Equestrian statue of George Washington	Washington Park 40°44′33″N 74°10′11″W / 40.74262°N 74.16969°W / 40.74262; -74.16969 (Statue of George Washington)	1912	J. Massey Rhind	Sculpture	Bronze	8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high, 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) wide, 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 m) long	NRHP contributing property	City of Newark		^[27]^[28]^[29]
More images	Wars of America	Military Park 40°44′20″N 74°10′11″W / 40.73877°N 74.16977°W / 40.73877; -74.16977 (Wars of America)	1926	Gutzon Borglum	Sculpture	Bronze		NRHP	City of Newark	Q7970861	^[7]

Subject	Role	Artist/Year	Location	Notes
Armed Forces Memorial	Dedicated to Jorge Oliveira 10-year veteran of the Essex County Sheriff's Office killed while serving in Afghanistan War	Thomas Jay Warren 2014	Veterans Memorial Park 40°44′19″N 74°10′57″W / 40.738653°N 74.182601°W / 40.738653; -74.182601 (Veterans Memorial)	^[38]^[39]
Seth Boyden	Inventor	Karl Gerhardt 1890	Washington Park 40°44′36″N 74°10′13″W / 40.74346°N 74.17026°W / 40.74346; -74.17026 (Seth Boyden)	^[40]
William J. Brennan, Jr.	US Supreme Court Justice	Thomas Jay Warren 2010	Essex County Government Complex 40°44′15″N 74°10′46″W / 40.73745°N 74.17949°W / 40.73745; -74.17949 (William J. Brennan, Jr.)	^[41]^[42]
Martin Brodeur aka The Salute	New Jersey Devils ice hockey player	Jon Krawczyk 2016	Prudential Center 40°43′57″N 74°10′15″W / 40.73250°N 74.17085°W / 40.73250; -74.17085 (Martin Brodeur, "The Salute")	^[32]
Brendan Byrne	Governor of New Jersey	Thomas Jay Warren 2013	Essex County Government Complex	^[43]^[44]
Frances Xavier Cabrini aka Mother Cabrini	First U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church	1958	Mother Cabrini Park in the Ironbound near Newark Penn Station 40°44′01″N 74°09′48″W / 40.73374°N 74.16325°W / 40.73374; -74.16325 (Frances Xavier Cabrini)
Roberto Clemente	Baseball right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973	Susan Wagner 2012	Branch Brook Park 40°45′45″N 74°10′41″W / 40.762550°N 74.178127°W / 40.762550; -74.178127 (Roberto Clemente)	^[37]^[45]
Monsignor Doane	Rector at St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral and civic leader	William Clark Noble 1908	Military Park-Doane Park 40°44′27″N 74°10′08″W / 40.74083°N 74.16895°W / 40.74083; -74.16895 (Monsignor Doane)	^[46]
Peter Francisco	Portuguese-born American patriot and soldier in the American Revolutionary War	1976	Peter Francisco Park in the Ironbound near Newark Penn Station 40°43′59″N 74°09′52″W / 40.73319°N 74.16433°W / 40.73319; -74.16433 (Peter Francisco)
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen	US Senator and United States Secretary of State	Karl Gerhardt 1894	Military Park 40°44′25″N 74°10′09″W / 40.74015°N 74.16918°W / 40.74015; -74.16918 (Frederick T. Frelinghuysen)	^[47]
Althea Gibson	Tennis pro and educator	Thomas Jay Warren 2012	Branch Brook Park 40°46′42″N 74°10′26″W / 40.77829°N 74.17388°W / 40.77829; -74.17388 (Althea Gibson)	^[33]^[34]^[35]^[36]
Kenneth A. Gibson	36th Mayor of Newark	Thomas Jay Warren	Newark City Hall 40°43′55″N 74°10′26″W / 40.73200°N 74.17388°W / 40.73200; -74.17388 (Kenneth A. Gibson)	^[48]
Joseph E. Haynes	20th Mayor of Newark	1917	Pequannock Gate, Roseville 40°46′05″N 74°10′55″W / 40.76800°N 74.18189°W / 40.76800; -74.18189 (Pequannock Gate)	^[49]
Felix Mendelssohn	composer	Joseph M. Didusch & Son 1903 rededicated 2017	Branch Brook Park 40°45′22″N 74°10′59″W / 40.756090°N 74.182985°W / 40.756090; -74.182985 (Felix Mendelssohn)	^[50]
Franklin Murphy	Governor of New Jersey Founder Murphy Varnish Works	J. Massey Rhind 1925	Weequahic Park 40°42′32″N 74°11′58″W / 40.70888°N 74.19953°W / 40.70888; -74.19953 (Franklin Murphy)	^[51]
Frederick Law Olmsted	"the father of landscape architecture"	Thomas Jay Warren 2018	Branch Brook Park
Rosa Parks	Civil rights activist	Thomas Jay Warren 2014	Essex County Government Complex	^[52]^[53]
Donald M. Payne	US Representative; the first African American Congressperson from New Jersey	Thomas Jay Warren 2011	Essex County Government Complex	^[54]^[55]
Sarah Vaughn Wayne Shorter	Singer and musician		Newark Light Rail Broad Street Extension stations

List of public art in Newark, New Jersey

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