These two columns stand at the Western entrance to Prospect Park at Bartel-Pritchard Square in Brooklyn, NY. They are made of granite, with bronze tripods of bowls on top. Inspired by the 400 B.C. Acanthus Column of Delphi, the columns were one of the last designs of Stanford White, cast just before his infamous murder in 1906. The columns were dedicated in 1911.
Bartel-Pritchard Square is actually a circle. Now a traffic circle, or roundabout as some call it, it was once a major trolley interchange. It was named for two local World War I war heroes, Emil Bartel and William Pritchard, who were killed in action in France in 1918.
I don't often revisit past subjects, but lately I have done so a few times.. Here's a drawing I did of this same site almost 10 and a half years ago! Back then, it was all in pencil, with no color.
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