R. Tait McKenzie’s portrait of a young Benjamin Franklin was seen as an appropriate example to the students of the University of Pennsylvania, a school that Franklin helped to found.

A permanent public art project that provides new meeting places for the Project HOME community to gather, reflect, and celebrate.

Edmund Bacon, Director of Philadelphia’s City Planning Commission, purchased this iron alloy painted sculpture for the City in 1968 with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

Commissioned in 1964 by The Franklin Institute, this sculpture is one of the first artworks commissioned as part of Philadelphia’s One Percent for Fine Arts program.

Inspired by the nineteenth-century author of Walden, Henry David Thoreau, the artist worked with the Pennypack Environmental Center Advisory Council to develop the public art project.

A Philadelphia philanthropist offered $25,000 toward a memorial to the fallen Pennsylvanian, Major General John Fulton Reynolds, who was killed by a sharpshooter in Gettysburg in 1863.

In honor of the U.S. Bicentennial, the people of Poland donated this bronze sculpture of Tadeusz (Thaddeus) Kosciuszko, who came from Poland to fight in America’s Revolutionary War.

“Sculpture,” said Henry Moore, “should always at first sight have some obscurities, and further meanings.”

Three slim angels concentrate raptly on their music as they hover above the grass along Kelly Drive. The work of Swedish-born artist Carl Milles, they are casts from a group of originals from the Millesgården in Stockholm, Sweden.

This bronze monument, which honors an important Austrian composer was awarded to the United German Singers of Philadelphia at the 16th National Saengerfest.