Joan of Arc (New York)

Joan of Arc, also known as Joan of Arc, Maiden of Orleans was used as a model to create this statue by Anna Hyatt Huntington at Riverside Drive and Ninety-third Street.

Description and history
Huntington's Joan of Arc stands at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Ninety-third Street in Manhattan, with other versions in San Francisco, Blois, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Québec City. Cast in bronze by the Gorham Manufacturing Company to one-and-a-half-times life size, its Mohegan granite base was designed by John Vredenburgh Van Pelt; it contains fragments of the Rouen cell Joan was imprisoned in before her execution, and from Reims Cathedral. Jean Jules Jusserand spoke at its dedication on December 6, 1915. The $35,000 ($0 in 2024) needed to erect the statue was donated by numismatist J. Sanford Saltus, namesake of the American Numismatic Society's Saltus Award. Huntington was catapulted into the international spotlight after the statue was unveiled with such dignitaries as Mina Edison, Thomas Edison's second wife.

In 1919 the New York Camera Club photo held a competition on who could take the best photo of the statue. The top four entrants had their pictures published in the November 16, 1919, New York Tribune.

Awards

 * The plaster model, which she made at the studio of Jules Dalou, earned her Honorable Mention at the 1910 Paris Salon.
 * One of the works of art credited to the City Beautiful movement
 * Earned the Legion of Honor for Anna Hyatt Huntington