G. L. Sussman
Monument Memorials
Memorial for Perry Rosenstein, philanthropist, founder of the Puffin Foundation
Life-size bronze memorial monument, located at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy a 43 acre park, in Teaneck NJ, Installed, (plantings not completed) April 21, 2025.
Christopher (Kit) Lucas, filmmaker, writer, director. Life-size plaster with bronze patina (portrait study for a monument in the making), March 2025.
A Monument to Pete Seeger, American singer, songwriter, musician. Over Life-size bronze portrait figure of Pete Seeger sitting with his banjo on 23 tons of Danby White Imperial Marble, carving including protestors, slogans, environmental representation of the Clearwater Sloop on the Hudson River, located at the Puffin Foundation, in Teaneck NJ, 2018.
Dr. Catherine Bateson, (scholar, writer, daughter of Margaret Mead) study for the Margaret Mead Monument, slated for the grounds of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY. Life-size plaster, 2016.
“James Francis Mentink”
Victim Crimes Memorial, Cascade Falls. MI.
bronze (image shown: clay)
life size
2005
“A. Bartlett Giamatti”
Yale University, Kingsley Trust, New Haven, CT.
marble carving
life size
1992
Commissioned in 1992 by the Kingsley Trust Association at Yale University posthumusly depicting A. Bartlett Giamatti in Roman toga similar to his much loved Dante. It is housed in the library of the Skull and Bones, AKA “The Tombs” across from an antique bust of Dante. It was executed first in clay, transposed into plaster and then carved into Carrara marble all by Mr. Sussman.
Washington Irving, Over-life size bronze memorial portrait, created for the National Historic Site, Washington Irvings’s Sunnyside Park, Irvington, New York; and cast in a foundry built by the sculptor at the Sculpture Center in New York City. Two additional casts were placed at the Irving Trust Bank on Wall Street (becoming the Bank of New York) and Town Hall in Irving, TX.
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