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This is a list of public art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Once cleaned up it might be moved to List of public art in Cambridge, Massachusetts (compare Southwark and Manila).

Sources: Public Art + Map

Table

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Compared to {{Public art header}}: Location can include coordinates. Artist/Designer can include architect. Type can include designation. Notes should include sources.
Image Title Location Date Artist/Designer Type Notes
MIT McDermott Court.jpg The Big Sail Alexander Calder Sculpture MIT SI
Charles Sumner Anne Whitney Statue One of a pair of sculptures commissioned, the other is in the Boston Public Garden. SI
Civil War Memorial Cyrus and Darius Cobb, with architect Thomas Silloway. War monument Cambridge Common SI
Discobolus replica of Myron Sculpture SI
Galaxy Cambridge.jpg Galaxy Joe Davis Fountain SI
Gift of the Wind Porter Station Susumu Shingu, with Cambridge Seven Associates Part of Arts on the Line
Glove cycle Porter Station Mags Harries Part of Arts on the Line
Irish Famine Monument Maurice Harron Memorial SI
John Bridge Thomas Gould Sculpture SI
John Harvard statue.jpg John Harvard Daniel Chester French Statue SI
Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) Henry Moore Sculpture SI
Sculpture with a D Davis Station Sam Gilliam Part of Arts on the Line
Three Piece Reclining Figure, Draped Henry Moore Sculpture SI
Transparent Horizon Louise Nevelson SI


Other outdoor sculptures

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Statue of Charles Sumner
Civil War Monument
Galaxy: Earth Sphere
Statue of John Harvard
La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)

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  • Abstract Faces (SI)
  • Animal Weather Vanes (SI)
  • Aspect of the Oracle: Portentous (SI), Radcliffe Yard
  • Athena (SI)
  • Bas-relief mural (SI)
  • The Bather (SI), MIT
  • Belltower for M.I.T. Chapel (SI), MIT
  • Bollards (SI)
  • The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming! (SI)
  • Bubble Chamber Series (SI)
  • Capt. Thomas Cunningham Monument (SI)
  • Celebrating the Marshland (SI)
  • Centanni Way Garden Sculptures (SI)
  • Central Square (SI)
  • Chickering Monument (SI), Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Chinese Ch'ing Dynasty Stele (SI)
  • D E M (SI)
  • Dante Alighieri (SI)
  • East Cambridge 1852 (SI)
  • Edwin Booth Monument (SI), Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Eldredge Monument (SI)
  • Ella Richardson (SI)
  • Festival Piece (Pole Climbers) (SI), Columbia Street Park
  • Figure Decoupee (SI), MIT
  • First Corps of Cadets Memorial (SI)
  • For Marjorie (SI), MIT
  • Four Figures (SI), Sennott Park
  • Francis C. Gray Monument (SI)
  • Gateway to Knowledge (SI)
  • Gift of the Wind (SI)
  • Harnden Monument (SI)
  • Henry Coffin Nevins Monument (SI), Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • The Hiker (SI)
  • Hygeia (SI)
  • Inner City Totem #1 (SI)
  • Inner City Totem #2 (SI)
  • James M. Thompson Monument (SI)
  • James Russell Lowell (SI)
  • Judgment (SI)
  • Large Four-Piece Reclining Figure (Reclining Woman) (SI)
  • Levitated Stone (SI)
  • Longfellow Monument (SI)
  • Lupus (SI)
  • M. P. S. (SI)
  • Manuel V. Leite Memorial (SI)
  • Mary Baker Eddy Memorial (SI)
  • Mount Vernon Wall Piece SI)
  • Nathaniel Bowditch (SI)
  • Niagara (SI)
  •  Done Night Wall I (SI)
  • The Onion (SI)
  • Orphee et Eurydice (SI)
  • Park Bench Group (SI)
  • Patsy Sebastian Pizzuto Memorial (SI)
  • Pharillon (SI)
  • Porter Square Megaliths (SI)
  • Reverend Charles T. Torrey Monument (SI), Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Reverend Hosea Ballou (SI), Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Revolutionary Figures (SI)
  • Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (SI)
  • Robinson Hall Doors (SI)
  • Search (SI)
  • Sears Memorial (SI)
  • Sennott Park Sculpture (SI), Sennott Park
  • Sphinx (SI)
  • Spinning Box (SI)
  • Stonework (SI)
  • Tanner Fountain (SI)
  • Thalassa (SI)
  • Thomas H. Perkins Family Monument (SI)
  • Tile Wall Mural (SI)
  • Topological III (SI)
  • Tot Lot Village (SI)
  • Totem pole shape, orange and blue (SI)
  • Tree of Life (SI)
  • Trees and Flowers (SI)
  • Trellis (SI)
  • Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. (SI)
  • Trinity (SI)
  • Two Curves (SI)
  • Untitled (SI)
  • Untitled (Fleischner) (SI)
  • Untitled (Keyser) (SI)
  • Untitled (Kepes) (SI)
  • Untitled (Mirko) (SI)
  • Untitled (Reimann) (SI)
  • William Dawes (SI)
  • Workers (SI)

Other sculpture

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A mix of indoor, outdoor, and multi-format works.

Artwork in and around Cambridge MBTA stations, predating organized arts grants; details in the article.

  • Gateway to Knowledge (Harvard)
  • Omphalos (Harvard)
  • New England Decorative Art (Harvard)
  • Blue Sky on the Red Line (Harvard)
  • Porter square megaliths (Porter)
  • Ondas (Porter)
  • Ten Figures (Davis)
  • Kiss and Ride (Alewife)
  • End of the Red Line (Alewife)
  • Untitled pond (Richard Fleischner, outside Alewife)

Local maps

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Sources: Public Art + Map

Maps of outdoor and indoor works. Some construction projects have public-space requirements, which often include works of art.

  • Along the river (various land arrangements)
  • On museum campuses (outdoors / in lobbies)
  • On university campuses: Harvard, MIT, Lesley
  • On other campuses (corporate, retail, malls): Cambridgeside, Science Park, Alewife, each major square