# Berlin Wall in Hyde Park, United States

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- Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/united-states/hyde-park/berlin-wall-hyde-park-f207
- Place: Freedom Court, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York, United States
- Classification: Artwork; can it be seen today: On display (On display); evidence: Documented
- Position: 41.7692781, -73.9339335
- Listed by the Federal Foundation as #207 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #185.

BreakFree, made from the two human silhouettes Edwina Sandys cut out of her Fulton sculpture. The negative space of one work became another, 800 miles away.

BreakFree stands in the Freedom Court outside the library, dedicated in 1994: twelve-foot concrete figures, a man and a woman, emerging from a tangle of oversized barbed wire. It is made from the two human silhouettes that Edwina Sandys cut out of Breakthrough at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri — so the void in one sculpture is the substance of another, eight hundred miles away. The court reads the object through Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms address, and a bust of Churchill faces it across the space, putting the two wartime allies back in sight of each other.

Provenance: The offcuts of Breakthrough, the eight-segment sculpture Sandys assembled at Fulton from sections she chose herself near the Brandenburg Gate in 1990. They were preserved rather than discarded and installed here in 1994.

Sources:

- [Artist Edwina Sandys, Churchill's granddaughter, to discuss her Berlin Wall sculpture at FDR site — Hudson Valley One](https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2019/09/12/artist-edwina-sandys-churchills-granddaughter-to-discuss-her-berlin-wall-sculpture-at-fdr-site/): BreakFree dedicated in the Freedom Court on 14 May 1994, twelve feet high, figures emerging from barbed wire, sited near the Churchill bust.
- [Edwina Sandys, Breakthrough — Streaming Museum](https://www.streamingmuseum.org/post/breakthrough): BreakFree was made from the cutouts preserved from Breakthrough at Westminster College.
- [Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide](https://www.berliner-mauer-weltweit.eu/bm_spots/berliner-mauer-im-hyde-park/): The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
- [Berlin Wall Archive](https://www.berlinwallarchive.com/segments?q=Hyde%20Park%2C%20NY): The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.