Exterior Artworks

The Collection

With the first official piece of Fort Myers public art dating back to August 17, 1913, we are fortunate to enjoy a long history of supporting the acquisition of additional installations. The following works are owned by the City and are the responsibility of the Public Art Committee pursuant to the City’s public art ordinance (118.7):

NOTES: 

1. Although the Robert E. Lee Bust was “dedicated” to Lee County and the City of Fort Myers, it is not clear that title to the artwork was thereby conveyed as a matter of law. Lee County claims no ownership rights to the bust, which has been maintained since its installation in 1966 by the Fort Myers Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Maj. William Footman Camp #1950 SVC.
2. Title to this artwork was originally held by the Gulf Coast Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association, which was disbanded and administratively dissolved by the Florida Department of State on September 19, 2003. The Tampa Bay All Airborne Chapter of the 82nd Airborne thereupon succeeded to ownership and responsibility for the monument’s conservation and maintenance. It is not known who holds title to the land on which the monument sits.
3. Although Naiad was commissioned and installed in accordance with Fort Myers’ public art ordinance and section 6(n) of the ordinance (3260) that enabled the planned unit development for Riviera-St. Tropez Condominiums, when the project was completed, title to the artwork was transferred on September 7, 2010 to the condominiums’ homeowners association “subject to the rights of the City as set forth in the PUD and Public Art Article of the Land Development Code.”
4. While the City of Fort Myers Public Art Committee collaborated on this project, the Parallel Park public art panels and the Lee County Justice Center Parking Garage to which they are attached are owned by Lee County and are technically part of Lee County’s public art collection.
5. Marks & Brands consists of a 3D totemic sculpture consisting of various cattle brand shapes in a calligraphic linear configuration known as Stacked Brands and four 1x2 foot life-cast silicon bronze relief panels. Three of these panels have been inserted in the sidewalk along First Street in downtown Fort Myers, with the fourth being installed on the sidewalk along McGregor Boulevard outside the Edison & Ford Winter Estates.