Woodhaven Blvd
In Memory of the Lost Battalion, 1996, Stainless steel, cold-rolled steel overlay, and faceted glass
By Pablo Tauler
This piece of artwork is designed to be in memory of World War One Soldiers cut off and surrounded by Germans in the Argonne Forest, France when they assumed they had forces advancing on either side of them. With over 500 solders originally only 194 made it out alive. The significance of the battalion to New York is the fact most of them were New Yorkers. The columns on the mezzanine are designed to invoke a forest as well.
