Robert Laurent’s interpretation of the American migration westward and the first sculpture installed in the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.

A gift of the Italian Colony of Philadelphia in 1907, this was the second monument given by Italian-Americans to the City.

Late in the American Revolutionary he commanded forces in the South that drove the British back toward the coast at Charleston and became known as “the man who saved the South.”

Commissioned by the Frank L. Rizzo Monument Committee, the statue was a gift to the city paid for by contributions from his family, friends, and supporters.

Even on a windless day, the cape swirls around this hero of three revolutionary wars.

In this work, commissioned for the entrance of a bank building as part of the Redevelopment Authority’s 1% program, Bailey wanted to link the geometry of the architecture with the park-like setting of nearby Independence Mall.

Just four days after the death of General Grant in 1885, the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) formed a committee to create a fund for erecting an appropriate memorial.

An attorney and civic leader, John Christian Bullitt drafted the “Bullitt Bill” which would later become Philadelphia’s City Charter.

Pinto wanted to link the human body with the natural environment in such a way that viewers themselves, passing through the work, would help to establish the connection.