"Fortitude"
                   12" x 16" original oil on panel 

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       The front of the New York City Public Library

is guarded by two carved lions, Patience and Fortitude.

They were renamed by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the 

1930's in the depths of the Depression. They were 

 originally named Astor and Lenox after the Libraries

founders.