Central Parks Sheep Meadow Photograph by James Aiken

Central Park's Sheep Meadow

by James Aiken

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Title

Central Park's Sheep Meadow

Artist

James Aiken

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

A lone tree within the Sheep Meadow of New York City's Central Park catches the light of the rising morning sunshine to throw beautifully long and elaborate shadows across the grass.

The Sheep Meadow has been home to various demonstrations, concerts, and political movements over the last century. Upon its creation, the Meadow's purpose was to serve as a parade ground for military drills, as this was one of the rules of the design contest. Though this idea contrasted with contest winners Olmsted and Vaux's vision of the Park as a peaceful and nature-based environment, they were initially obligated to comply with this rule. Among the Park's original constructions, Sheep Meadow was by far the most costly, and the designers had to order a reshaping of the land and the uprooting of immigrants to create it. (Information obtained from centralpark.com)

Central Park, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, is an urban park in New York City's borough of Manhattan. The park initially opened in 1857 on 778 acres of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan to the current 843 acres, which they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction commenced that same year, continued through the American Civil War, and concluded in 1873. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States. (Information obtained from Wikipedia)

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