For this Redevelopment Authority one percent project, the artist created a two-part wall sculpture in which cages of bronze mesh are filled with 4.5 tons of limestone rocks.

David von Schlegell’s design features diagonal lines to counter the verticality of the nearby architecture. In basic shape “Voyage of Ulysses” resembles a sail, but its appearance varies from difference perspectives.

Commissioned by the GSA’s Art in Architecture Program, this 27-foot mural presents drummers and dancers in vivid colors with complex, interlocking geometric patterns clearly influenced by Charles Searles’ study of African art.

This Italian travertine marble fountain featuring four sea horses – symbols of strength and vitality – was a gift from the Italian government (Mussolini’s government) to mark the United States’ 1926 Sesquicentennial.

Beatrice Fenton was a Philadelphia sculptor known for her fanciful fountains with realistic renderings of youths amongst plant forms.

Dedicated to a former officer and director of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, this fountain at the Philadelphia Zoo captures the sudden flight of impala antelope. The herd scatters in arc formations over jets of water in an oval-shaped pool.

Loosely brushed blocks of color, white chalky patches and lines, and confetti-like patterns are layered over larger fields of color, and these forms are framed by sections of stripes and checkerboard grids. To Brooker, the checkerboard, seen in many of his paintings, represents “options, possibilities, and what could happen.”

Once a water fountain, Rebecca at the Well depicts a biblical story from the Book of Genesis, in which Rebecca offers water to a man and his camel.

This war memorial by sculptor Charles Rudy is dedicated to the University of Pennsylvania faculty, students, and alumni who died in military service.

This bronze bust of a Black woman by artist Simone Leigh references Batammaliba architecture from Benin and Togo, the teleuk dwellings in Chad and Cameroon, and the restaurant Mammy’s Cupboard in Mississippi.