Artwork
The Weight of Our Living
(2024)by Rachel Hsu (b. 1992)
Maja Park, 22nd Street and the Benjamin Franklin ParkwayInspired by Taiwan’s reflexology footpaths, this temporary installation for The Oval invites visitors to embark on a tactile and meditative experience by removing their shoes and traversing an undulating surface of rounded stones.
These commemorative banners at 13th and Locust Streets by Xenobia Bailey feature a mid-1800s daguerreotype of a Black man collaged with crocheted gold embellishments. A project of the Association for Public Art in partnership with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, this marks Bailey’s first public art installation in Philadelphia.
Commemorating the Stacks
(2018)by Colette Fu (b. 1969)
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central BranchKnown for her intricate works in the medium of pop-up books and paper art, Colette Fu created a series of square tunnel books that memorialize the Free Library’s historic stacks.
Steel Bodies
(2022)by Maren Hassinger (b. 1947)
Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, Kelly DriveOriginally commissioned and presented by Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, “Steel Bodies” is the first contemporary public art exhibition at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, and Maren Hassinger’s first outdoor sculpture exhibition in Philadelphia. Ten large-scale metal vessel sculptures have been installed throughout the memorial, juxtaposed against the existing figurative artworks and landscape.
Kangaroos
(1970)by Harold Kimmelman (1923 - 2013)
Lawrence Court, between 4th and 5th Streets and Spruce and Cypress StreetsHopping along a walkway in Society Hill since 1972, these stainless steel kangaroos are one of the many metal sculptures throughout the Philadelphia region by Harold Kimmelman.
North Pediment
(1932)by Carl Paul Jennewein (1890 - 1978)
East Terrace, Philadelphia Museum of ArtCarl Paul Jennewein was a classical sculptor who was particularly interested in combining sculpture with architecture. His sculptures for the north pediment of the Philadelphia Museum of Art draw their content and technique from ancient Greece.
General Anthony Wayne
(1937)by John Gregory (1879-1958)
East Terrace, Philadelphia Museum of Art“Mad Anthony” Wayne, Pennsylvania’s foremost military hero of the Revolutionary War, led the bayonet attack on the fort of Stony Point and played a major role in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and the siege of Yorktown.
Milkweed Pod
(1965)by Clark B. Fitz-Gerald (1917-2004)
Courtyard, Rohm and Haas Building, 6th and Market StreetsThe copper and stainless steel Milkweed Pod combines a natural image – the release of milkweed into a breeze – with formal, geometric elements.
Family of Man
(1961)by Constantino Nivola (1911-1988)
University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library entrance, between 34th and 36th Streets, Locust and Spruce StreetsThe Sardinian artist Constantino Nivola was building sand castles with his children on a Long Island beach when he conceived a new kind of sculpture: bas-reliefs that would be molded in damp sand and then cast in concrete.