The City of Greenville in Michigan has a near-replica of Denmark’s Little Mermaid statue sitting on the banks of Flat River where the river winds through Greenville.  There are some noticeable similarities and differences between Greenville’s sculpture and the Danish sculpture. The pose and the legs/fins are very clearly inspired by the Danish statue. But […]

There is a half-size bronze replica of Edvard Eriksen’s sculpture of The Little Mermaid in the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake City. These gardens contain contributions from twenty six countries. The International Peace Gardens was the third place to receive permission from the Danish King and the artist, Edvard Eriksen, to have a copy of […]

This fabulous mermaid statue appeared in Cayucos in about 2005. It is located in front of a realty office and near the Mermaid Rock Soap company. It became the inspiration for an annual Cayucos mermaid parade. The sea-shell bracelets, the hair clearly suspended in water and the special folds around the eyes are special features […]

There is a mermaid fountain in the 1984 Disney movie “Splash”. Madison the mermaid (played by Daryl Hannah) gives this mermaid fountain to her human lover Allen (Tom Hanks), and actually gets it installed inside his apartment. The fountain was on display at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for many years, up through 2015 at least.  The fountain was […]

There is a mermaid named Lorelie in the town of Unity in Maine. It was created by Maine wildlife sculptor Forest Hart and presented as a gift to Bert and Coral Clifford. The Cliffords in turn donated it to the Unity College Center for Performing Arts. The mermaid is located in the garden next to […]

The Lorelei Fountain contains 3 mermaids, and is located in Joyce Kilmer Park’s Grand Concourse in The Bronx. It was created in the 1890s by the German sculptor Ernst Herter. The sculpture is a memorial to German poet and writer Heinrich Heine, and the sculpture is also known as the Heinrich Heine Fountain. Heinrich composed […]

The “Rockefeller Fountain” is also known as the “Italian Fountain” and as the “Rainey Gate Fountain”, and includes a number of mermaids, mermen and sea-horses. But regardless of the name, it is now located in the Bronx Zoo in New York City, just inside the Zoo entrance at Rainey Gate. The fountain was carved from […]

Jayne Charless Beck was a San Angelo resident artist, who passed away in 1993.  In 1994 this bronze casting was donated by friends of Jayne Beck to the City of San Angelo. It is an enlargement of a sculpture Jayne created earlier, and this enlarged sculpture was placed next to a pedestrian bridge close to […]

Edith Berlin, an accomplished sculptor from Veracruz, created the mermaid sculpture Armonía (Harmony) in 1994.  It was originally located at the intersection of Calle Genova and Calle Liverpool in the heart of Mexico City. The sculpture seems to have been moved after 2015 or so.  The location is a pedestrian street with a lot of shops, […]