Celebrating Philadelphia’s pivotal and unique role in the American labor movement, the artwork transforms Elmwood Park into a community gathering space and an “outdoor history lesson.”

In 1985 this majestic bronze came to the University of Pennsylvania campus on extended loan from the parents of a Penn student.

Einar Jónsson’s sculpture of the Icelandic hero Thorfinn Karlsefni, who is said to have visited America’s shores as early as 1004. Little is known of Karlsefni except what is recorded in the “Saga of Eric the Red.”

The New England Society of Pennsylvanians asked Augustus Saint-Gaudens to make a replica of “The Puritan” located in Springfield, Massachusetts for the city of Philadelphia. Gaudens made some changes in the figure’s dress and adjusted the facial characteristics for “The Pilgrim.”

In a 1779 battle, Captain of the Continental navy, John Paul Jones captured a British ship and famously said, “I have not yet begun to fight.”

Opposite the Montgomery monument in the William M. Reilly Memorial is a stern, sword-wielding portrait of General Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman who served under George Washington during the American Revolution.

General Richard Montgomery’s career was both spectacular and short. In 1772 he emigrated to the American colonies, and when the Revolutionary War broke out he was commissioned a brigadier general.

Jean Antoine Houdon’s full-figure sculpture of George Washington in Washington Square Park.

The Eternal Mother is seated with arms outstretched. Flanking her are two standing female figures: one representing Compassion and another that personifies Death. In 2019, Social Consciousness was relocated from the West Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the University of Pennsylvania.

The Mounted Amazon Attacked by a Panther was the work of German sculptor August Kiss. Caught in the midst of the attack, the figures convey the violence and emotional tension of the moment.