While arguments continue across the world regarding the fate of various racist monuments, one sculpture has been a source of discussion since its unveiling back in 1922, uprooting it from its home twice. Civic Virtue Triumphant Over Unrighteousness was created by Frederick William MacMonnies between 1909 and 1922, commissioned by Mayor George McClellan to stand in front of City Hall. It was sculpted in France, and had to be buried twice to avoid being destroyed during World War I. The main body of the statue depicts a male nude (based on an…
