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This is a list of public art in Mayfair, a district in the City of Westminster, London. Mayfair is a residential and commercial area dominated by terraces of town houses. In Grosvenor Square there are several memorials with an American theme, including a memorial garden commemorating the September 11 attacks, due to the former presence on that square of the US Embassy. At the southern end of the district, the courtyard of Burlington House (home of the Royal Academy of Arts) on Piccadilly is frequently used as a temporary exhibition space for artworks.

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  • This is a list of public art in Mayfair, a district in the City of Westminster, London. Mayfair is a residential and commercial area dominated by terraces of town houses. In Grosvenor Square there are several memorials with an American theme, including a memorial garden commemorating the September 11 attacks, due to the former presence on that square of the US Embassy. At the southern end of the district, the courtyard of Burlington House (home of the Royal Academy of Arts) on Piccadilly is frequently used as a temporary exhibition space for artworks. (en)
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  • Statue of Joshua Reynolds, Burlington House (en)
  • Allies by Lawrence Holofcener (en)
  • Terza Rima (en)
  • Horse and Rider by Elisabeth Frink (en)
  • Statue of William Pitt the Younger, Hanover Square, London (en)
  • Eagle Squadron Memorial (en)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, London (en)
  • Royal Academy War Memorial (en)
  • Shop Till You Drop (en)
  • Statue of Dwight Eisenhower, London (en)
  • Statue of Ronald Reagan, London (en)
  • Statue of Woman of Samaria, Berkeley Square (en)
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  • Carlos Place (en)
  • Princes Street (en)
  • New Bond Street (en)
  • Above the portico (en)
  • Annenberg Courtyard (en)
  • Aspinall's, Curzon Street (en)
  • Bond Street tube station Jubilee line platforms (en)
  • Bourdon Place (en)
  • Bruton Lane (en)
  • Central balustrade (en)
  • Colnaghi, 144–146 New Bond Street (en)
  • Corner of New Bond Street and Burlington Gardens (en)
  • Curzon Square (en)
  • East wall, within ground-floor arcade (en)
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  • In front of Leconfield House, Curzon Street (en)
  • Mount Street / Carlos Place (en)
  • New Burlington Mews (en)
  • New Burlington Place (en)
  • Outside 40 Berkeley Square (en)
  • Richard Green Gallery, 33 New Bond Street (en)
  • Second-floor façade (en)
  • Sotheby's, 34–35 New Bond Street (en)
  • St Andrew's Building, 17 Old Park Lane (en)
  • West wall, within ground-floor arcade (en)
  • Western balustrade (en)
  • Wilder Walk (en)
  • Lancashire Court, on the approach to Handel & Hendrix in London (en)
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  • The three reliefs, representing scenes from the Odyssey, are an allegory of "the extreme lengths modern art has taken to distance itself from its origin in Greece". (en)
  • Scenes of the city in ancient and modern times, hand-painted and in relief. (en)
  • Originally erected in Bond Street. (en)
  • Refers to the Tyburn which once ran nearby. (en)
  • A raised granite-edged pool into which two trees are set, and which emits clouds of water vapour for fifteen seconds every fifteen minutes. Jointly commissioned by the Grosvenor Estate and the Connaught Hotel; Blair Associates Architects and the Building Design Partnership were also involved the project. (en)
  • The gambling club's founder, John Aspinall, was a noted wildlife enthusiast whose two animal parks in Kent, Howletts and Port Lympne, are funded by the club's proceeds. (en)
  • Pedestal inscribed / / . This Fountain Nymph was Munro's second treatment of the theme after that for the memorial to Herbert Ingram in Boston, Lincolnshire . He also produced a smaller marble version of the Berkeley Square Nymph, which was installed in a public garden in Oxford in around 1970. (en)
  • Frink's catalogue raisonné notes that these figures personify "the most desirable masculine qualities", namely "speed, resilience, intelligence, loyalty, affection, courage, sensitivity, beauty and free sensuality". Another cast was erected in Winchester High Street in 1983. Previously situated on Dover Street near the junction with Piccadilly, the work was moved to its current location in 2018 to mark the opening of the Royal Academy's new entrance at 6 Burlington Gardens. (en)
  • The bench-like sculptures are formed from black granite from Zimbabwe and silver-grey granite from Portugal spliced together. (en)
  • Quotations from the French revolutionary Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are inscribed on the terracotta façade: "" and "" (en)
  • -high bronze gates with abstract patterns of "flowing lines and intersecting arcs ... reflecting the life and style of Mayfair", which can be lowered at night in the manner of a portcullis. (en)
  • Inscribed / / . Lofts was an estate agent, and George an architect, to the Grosvenor estate. Lofts's office was in Mount Street, which was partly rebuilt by his firm with George as architect. (en)
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  • Three Figures (en)
  • (Simon Milton) (en)
  • (Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt) (en)
  • An Age, An Instant (en)
  • Artists' Rifles War Memorial (en)
  • Crouching Figure No. 4 (en)
  • Ducking Pond Row Fountain (en)
  • Entrance Sculpture (en)
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  • Hat box motifs (en)
  • Horizon Line, Shadow Line and Time Line (en)
  • New Burlington Flare (en)
  • Portcullis Gates (en)
  • RAF Eagle Squadrons Memorial (en)
  • ROOM (en)
  • Royal Academy War Memorial (en)
  • Shop Till You Drop (en)
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  • The Prophecy of Teiresias (en)
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