In this artwork, how is the Exile discussed?
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, who was mayor from 1934 to 1945, hated the sculpture. He called it "Fat Boy", and resented being confronted with the male figure's naked buttocks each day as he left City Hall. When Queens erected a new Borough Hall in 1940, LaGuardia seized the opportunity and gave the fountain to Queens where it was removed to in February 1941.The fountain was installed in Kew Gardens, at Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike, beside the new Borough Hall. It was unveiled on May 29, 1941.
The fountain was the site of a 1972 feminist movement demonstration. In 1987, Queens's first woman president, Claire Shulman, proposed that the statue be moved: "A municipal building is not an appropriate place for a statue that portrays women as evil and treacherous."The marble sculpture and fountain deteriorated markedly, but Queens did not have the money to restore it.Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, in the first public event of his unsuccessful campaign for mayor of New York City, held a press conference at the fountain on February 25, 2011. He decried its depiction of women and demanded its removal, even its sale on Craigslist. Green-Wood Cemetery agreed to accept it. The sculpture group, without the pedestal and pool of the Angelina Crane Fountain, was removed from Queens Borough Hall on December 15, 2012, and relocated to the cemetery grounds in Brooklyn.
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