This wonderful rendition of a mermaid in granite and marble was created by Barcelona sculptor Antonio Cañete, and is located on the waterfront promenade at the Puerto Jose  Banús harbor on the west side of Marbella on the south coast of Spain, about 30 miles from Gibraltar. Mermaid statue La Sirena Puerto Banus Marbella in Spain. Photo © […]

The tritons and nereids in the fountains at Place de la Concorde have been there since 1840, in the center of Paris. The two fountains were designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, who was commissioned by King Louis-Philippe in 1831 to design the entire Place de la Concorde after Egypt gifted a 230-ton obelisk to France. […]

In some situations an issue arises regarding the ‘propriety’ of mermaid statues as public art – whether they are family friendly or ‘decent’. Since mermaids don’t wear clothes, excepting of course Disney mermaids, sculptors of fine art mermaid statues and sculptures almost always model them without clothes. Occasionally there are concerns about this when a […]

This book commemorates the 100 year anniversary on August 23, 2013, of Copenhagen’s world-famous statue of The Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale from 1836.   (Read more about the Little Mermaid Statue) The story is known all over the world, both in the Disney version and in the original fairy tale version. […]

Ghirardelli Square is located in the historic Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco.  The centerpiece of the square is Andrea’s Fountain with statues of turtles, large frogs, two mermaids and a mermaid child. The fountain was created in 1968 by Ruth Asawa, and has a varying water feature – at times quiet, at other times […]

Crescent City lies on the coast in northern California just 10 miles or so south of the Oregon border. This is the area of Redwoods State Park and other parks with ancient and enormous Sequoia trees. It is also the area of the early pioneers of the art of chainsaw wood carving in the 1950s […]

The Russian mermaid statue at Soter Point in Ventura, California was donated by Alec & Tatyana Benke to the city of Ventura in 2009, and placed at Soter Point in collaboration with Samuel Povar and Andy Soter. Alec Benke and his wife Tatyana emigrated from Kazakhstan to the United States and the mermaid statue is […]

The town of Cavalaire-sur-Mer on the French Riviera has a history reaching back to Phoenician times.   Today it is a busy beach town with a sizable harbor for all kinds of leisure sailing vessels.   A mermaid statue was unveiled here on July 4th 2013.  It is fitting in many ways, not least because […]

You may have heard the story that Manatees are the original inspiration for mermaids. In my opinion this doesn’t sound likely, but nonetheless, this is an awfully cute collection of manatees. http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseamarshall/mantees-living-proof-that-mermaids-are-real-and-beautiful