Photograph by Des Oxford, in 2006.

The bull is a 3,200 kg bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green Park near Wall Street in New York City. Standing 11 feet tall and measuring 16 feet long, the oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge.

“That bull is one of an edition of five”, Di Modica told the New York Daily News in 1998. In 2010 a similar Charging Bull sculpted by Di Modica which looks “younger” and “stronger” was installed in Shanghai.