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This is a list of public art in and around Strand, a thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, London. Strand has linked Westminster with the City of London since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Aldwych is a crescent at its eastern end created during urban improvements in the early 20th century. Among the examples of architectural sculpture in this area, Jacob Epstein's reliefs of the Ages of Man for Zimbabwe House (originally the British Medical Association building) are of particular note. These were the sculptor's first major works in Britain and the subject of heated controversy due to the figures' nudity in a public setting.

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  • This is a list of public art in and around Strand, a thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, London. Strand has linked Westminster with the City of London since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Aldwych is a crescent at its eastern end created during urban improvements in the early 20th century. Among the examples of architectural sculpture in this area, Jacob Epstein's reliefs of the Ages of Man for Zimbabwe House (originally the British Medical Association building) are of particular note. These were the sculptor's first major works in Britain and the subject of heated controversy due to the figures' nudity in a public setting. On the campus of the London School of Economics, much of the public art was bequeathed to the university in 2005 by Louis Odette, a Canadian alumnus who also founded the Windsor Sculpture Park in Windsor, Ontario. He bequeathed a total of 13 works, mainly by Canadian sculptors, to the institution. Not all of those works are within the remit of this list, as some are situated indoors or in the adjacent borough of Camden. (en)
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  • Civil Service Rifles War Memorial (en)
  • Arthur Harris, statue in London (en)
  • Hugh Dowding statue, London (en)
  • The World Turned Upside Down (en)
  • Gladstone Memorial, London (en)
  • Statue of George III, Somerset House, London (en)
  • Baby Tembo (en)
  • Memorial to Jawaharlal Nehru, London (en)
  • Penguin sculpture, London School of Economics (en)
  • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (en)
  • Statue of Samuel Johnson, London (en)
  • The Awakening of Australia (en)
  • The Prosperity of Australia (en)
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  • Devereux Court (en)
  • Sheffield Street, outside the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (en)
  • Clare Market, Old Building (en)
  • Clare Market, St Clement's Building (en)
  • Clement's Inn, opposite Pethick-Lawrence House (en)
  • Gray's Inn Fields (en)
  • Houghton Street, Old Building (en)
  • India Place (en)
  • John Watkins Plaza (en)
  • Lionel Robbins Building , Portugal Street (en)
  • Milford Lane, at junction with Tweezer's Alley (en)
  • Milford Lane, near the junction with Strand (en)
  • Milford Lane, opposite Little Essex Street (en)
  • Savoy Hotel, Strand (en)
  • Somerset House, Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court (en)
  • Somerset House, River Terrace (en)
  • Strand, behind St Clement Danes (en)
  • Strand, in front of St Clement Danes (en)
  • Strand, rear of central block of Bush House (en)
  • Right of the main entrance of Australia House, Aldwych/Strand (en)
  • John Watkins Plaza, outside the British Library of Political and Economic Science (en)
  • Left of the main entrance of Australia House, Aldwych/Strand (en)
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  • Part of the Odette bequest. A bronze copy of a smaller marble original of 1977, produced during the artist's "Stone Age" period. (en)
  • Part of the Odette bequest. This work and Yolanda vanderGaast's Penguin were formerly sited on Clare Market as the LSE crèche was at that time located at the top of the street, and it was thought that these sculptures might appeal to children. (en)
  • The mosaic represents the River Thames and subjects taught at the LSE. (en)
  • Part of the Odette bequest. (en)
  • Commissioned for the offices of the United Kingdom Provident Institution, demolished in the 1970s. (en)
  • The King, in the upper group, leans on a rudder and is flanked by a British lion and the prow of a classical barge; the Thames is represented below him as a river god. The maritime theme refers both to the function of the building, as offices for the Royal Navy , and to the King himself as steering the ship of state. (en)
  • Copies of the figures originally designed for the dwarf-posts outside the British Museum, incorporated by Holden into his Law Society extension of 1902–1904. The same design also appears on the railings surrounding Stevens's magnum opus, the Duke of Wellington's tomb in St Paul's Cathedral . (en)
  • Part of the Odette bequest. VanderGaast's original Penguin of 2002 stood in Clare Market from 2005. In 2009 it was stolen; the thieves left only the flippers behind. A replacement statue was installed that year; in 2015 it moved to its current site. (en)
  • Inscribed . Young oversaw the building of Aldwych and Kingsway in 1899–1905. (en)
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  • The World Turned Upside Down (en)
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  • The Marchers (en)
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  • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (en)
  • The Awakening of Australia (en)
  • The Prosperity of Australia (en)
  • Truth, Justice, Liberty and Mercy (en)
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  • Two elephants and a relief of the Lion Capital of Ashoka (en)
  • Twelve decorations representing the states of India (en)
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