Tom Martinez, Witness: Three Dancing Maidens

I took this photo of the Untermyer Fountain in Central Park near the 106th St. entrance on the north east side of the park (the general area is known as the “Conservatory Garden”).  The following blurb is from a website about Central Park Sculptures:

“The bronze figures, Three Dancing Maidens are the center piece of the fountain. Completed before 1910 in Germany, Walter Schott’s Three Dancing Maidens depicts a circle of three young women whose dresses cling to their wet bodies as if they were perpetually in the fountain’s spray. One larger jet of water is featured in the middle of their dance, while two smaller jets appear on either side of the oval pool. The circle of the sculpture and base and the ellipse of the pool complement the slightly oval-shaped garden itself. The sculpture came to Central Park in 1947 after the death of Samuel Untermyer. It is a cast of the original. Just how Untermyer acquired the sculpture from the Berlin original or had the cast made remains a mystery.”