John Howard Van Amringe, also known as the Van Amringe Memorial, is an outdoor bust depicting the American educator and mathematician of the same name, installed at Van Amringe Quadrangle on the Columbia University campus in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was sculpted by William Ordway Partridge in 1912, and installed on Commencement Day in June 1922.[1][2]

John Howard Van Amringe
The bust in 2014
Artist	William Ordway Partridge
Year	1912 (1912)
Medium	Bronze on green marble pedestal
Subject	John Howard Van Amringe
Dimensions	70 cm × 58 cm × 38 cm (28 in × 23 in × 15 in)
Location	Columbia University, New York City, New York
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On June 8, 1962, the bust was toppled off of its pedestal by vandals and received extensive damage. It was repaired or replaced, and reinstalled in December of that year.[3]

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  The memorial in 2014

References

External links

• Media related to Van Amringe Memorial at Wikimedia Commons

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