Now on Your Cell Phone or iPod: A Tour of Fairmount Park Art
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Now on Your Cell Phone or iPod: A Tour of Fairmount Park Art

KYW Newsradio 1060 AM
By KYW’s Karin Phillips

An audio tour of the public artworks along Kelly Drive and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway has been launched.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller is just one of more than 100 voices heard on the new “Museum Without Walls” audio tour, which explores 51 of Philadelphia’s outdoor sculptures in Fairmount Park.

Charles Fuller and Michael Roepel are featured voices for J. Otto Schweizer's "All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors."
Charles Fuller (left) and Michael Roepel (right) are featured voices for J. Otto Schweizer’s “All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors.” Photo © Association for Public Art

He was happy to take part in the project: “For a long, long time, long after I’m gone, I’m sure people will be listening to the same tapes. And that’s a wonderful legacy, I think.”

Penny Balkin Bach of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now Association for Public Art) is executive producer of the tour:

“It’s basically a walking program, from the Love sculpture in Love Park all the way down to the John B. Kelly statue along Kelly Drive, at the rowing stand.”

Related Artworks

Artwork

LOVE

(1976)

by Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018)

15th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard

For the bicentennial celebration in 1976, artist Robert Indiana lent the city a large aluminum sculpture of his “love” image. Indiana first produced this design as a painting in 1964.

Artwork

John B. Kelly

(1965)

by Harry Rosin (1897 - 1973)

East Fairmount Park, Kelly Drive near Growing Grandstand

A monument to great champion oarsman John B. Kelly, Sr. along the Schuylkill River, erected by the Friends of Jack Kelly.

Artwork

All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors

(1934)

by J. Otto Schweizer (1863 - 1955)

Logan Square, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 20th Street

The Honorable Samuel Beecher Hart, a Pennsylvania legislator and captain of the Gray Invincibles, proposed a memorial to the state’s African American military men who had served the United States in wartime.

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