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Sign-O-Pedia: Gregg LeFevre

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Photographer, Sculptor

Born in the United States (1946). LeFevre who works in the United States, came to sculpture and design after studying philosophy. It is best known for the bronze plaques found in major cities in the United States, especially New York City (more than 120 such sites)
In addition to sculpture and mainly because of his "street works", from the early 1990s he also began to engage in street photography, and exhibitions of his photographs are found in many places.

The artist’s signature appears on some of the plaques, for example (from )

On the website are several projects of the artist:
The Library Walk - a route that starts at the New York Public Library, and continues along 41st Street, with quotations from famous books and authors .
Union Square Timeline - a series of 22 panels surrounding Union Square and describing the history of the square from 1600 to 1882
Park Avenue plaques - bronze plaques placed on Park Ave in Manhattan and describing historic buildings in the area
Apollo Theater Walk of Fame - Artists who performed at the Apollo Theater

The works on the site made by Gregg LeFevre (51-75  of 112)
51 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Discourse on the Method" by René Descartes
52 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Elwyn Brooks White’s letter to James Thurber
53 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Virginia Woolf’s "Leaning Tower"
54 New York - Library Walk - The first verse from John Greenleaf Whittier’s song "Proem"
55 New York - Library Walk - "Why some people be mad at me sometimes" a song by Lucille Clifton
56 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views" by Pablo Picasso
57 New York - Library Walk - "1212" a song by Emily Dickinson
58 New York - Library Walk - Quote from John Milton’s speech - Areopagitica
59 New York - Library Walk - Two verses from Yeats’ Poem "When You are Old"
60 New York - Library Walk - A verse from Gwendolyn Brooks’ song "Song of Winnie"
61 New York - Library Walk -A verse from Wallace Stevens’ song "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
62 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Garson Kanin’s play "Born Yesterday"
63 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Isak Dinesen’s book "Shadows on the Grass"
64 New York - Library Walk -Richard Eberhart’s poet "Reading Room: The New York Public Library"
65 New York - Library Walk - Quote from "Old Newsman Writes" by Ernest Hemingway
66 New York - Library Walk - Langston Hughes song: Words Like Freedom
67 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Francis Bacon’s book "Of Studies"
68 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Alfred Kazin’s book "New York Jew"
69 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Mark Twain’s book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’"
70 New York - Library Walk -A verse from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s song "The Day is Done"
71 New York - Library Walk - A quote from Tom Stoppard’s play "Night and Day"
72 New York - Library Walk - Excerpts from the song "Library Scene" by Robert Pinski
73 New York - Library Walk - Quote from the book "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
74 New York - Library Walk - William Carlos Williams song: Poem
75 New York - Library Walk - Quote from Muriel Rukeyser’s Poem: The Speed of Darkness
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