Artwork damaged or destroyed in the September 11 attacks

An estimated $10 million worth of public art was lost due to the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Three companies held major corporate art collections in the World Trade Center: Fred Alger, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Bank of America.

Their offices on the 105th floor of the North Tower housed a gallery which held an estimated 300 casts of Rodin sculptures.

[1] Some of the Rodin works were recovered a quarter mile away from Ground Zero, including a bust from The Burghers of Calais, two of the three figures from The Three Shades, and a cast of The Thinker.

[1] Bank of America's office in the World Trade Center lost over 100 works of art by contemporary artists.

[11][12] The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council had its offices in Building 5 of the World Trade Center, and two studios on the 91st and 92nd floors of The North Tower.

Richards had worked through the night in the towers on an unfinished sculpture, a memorial piece dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen, which portrayed a pilot riding a burning meteor.

All library staff escaped, but the Chief Army Librarian Ann Parham suffered facial burns.