Audrey Munson, America's first supermodel, was an artist model for the [New York City] statues at... the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, @ the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge, the Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Circle, above the fountain of the Plaza Hotel, and atop the Municipal Building in lower Manhattan (the largest statue of a woman in NYC after Lady Liberty). Outside of NYC, she was the model for the figure atop the capital building of the state of Wisconsin (located in Madison, WI). At age 24, during a turbulent time in her life, she attempted suicide with a medicine containing mercury, but survived for 80 more years in an assisted living asylum. In 1996, at 104, she died, mostly unknown for her role in art.