Statue of J. Marion Sims

J. Marion Sims is a bronze sculpture depicting the American physician of the same name by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller.

[1] The sculpture consists of a nearly 9-foot-tall image of a standing Sims upon a plinth resting on a pedestal, and supporting piers on either side with roundels containing descriptions.

The figure of Sims is cast in bronze, and the other elements of the sculpture are granite from North Jay, Maine.

[3][4] This statue became a cause of controversy in 2017 due to Sims' experimental operations on enslaved black women.

[7] In April 2018, the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to have the statue removed from Central Park and installed in Green-Wood Cemetery, near where Sims is buried.

The statue in Bryant Park