Charles Cary Rumsey (1879-1922)

In 1919 Rumsey competed for the design of a victory monument that would top a triumphal arch being designed by Thomas Hastings. His classical image of winged victory, the ancient Greek goddess Nike, flanked by six horses and two plowmen did not win the commission. A few years later he designed a different Nike motif for a World War I memorial that was created for Zion Park in Brooklyn. --Nancy Weekly