This allegorical bronze cast depicts descending nightfall as a shrouded woman. It was the first gift to the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art).

A trompe l’oeil mural by artist Richard Haas located at 2300 Chestnut Street.

The Honorable Samuel Beecher Hart, a Pennsylvania legislator and captain of the Gray Invincibles, proposed a memorial to the state’s African American military men who had served the United States in wartime.

Sitting on a bench with a newspaper in hand and a pigeon at his side, this sculpture was a gift from the University of Pennsylvania’s class of 1962.

These two Tennessee marble pylons on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway commemorate Civil War soldiers and sailors.

This sculpture is the first full-size reconstruction of the 100-million-year-old dinosaur, Deinonychus

Don Diego de Gardoqui served as a financial intermediary during the Revolutionary War, helping bring funds and arms from Spain to America.

The symbolic entrance for Philadelphia’s Chinatown. Painted bright gold, green, blue, and red, it reflects a traditional Chinese architectural style of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).

Artist Diane Pieri’s nine mosaic “stoops” enhance and interpret the physical and natural environment of the Manayunk Canal Towpath.

Louise Nevelson was one of the first women in the U.S. to gain widespread recognition for her public art. Bicentennial Dawn—her most ambitious permanent work at the time—was unveiled during an elaborate reception in January 1976, marking the dawn of the bicentennial year.