The 58-ton Bolt of Lightning refers to the famous experiment in which Franklin flew a kite in an electrical storm.
Facing City Hall tower with its sculpture of William Penn, Clothespin has the jolting and humorous effect of a familiar object seen out of context.
Located opposite the main entrance of the Franklin Institute, the bronze sphere is dedicated to the aviators who died in World War I.
Around 478 BCE, Polyzalos, the Tyrant of Gela in Sicily, commissioned a statue to express his gratitude to the god Apollo for his charioteer’s victory in the Pythian Games. The cast near Philadelphia’s Museum of Art was a gift from the Greek government.
Over thirty-six feet tall and weighing more than 53,000 pounds, Alexander Milne Calder’s William Penn atop City Hall is one of Philadelphia’s most prominent landmarks.
Philadelphia was one of the first cities in the nation to erect a monument to Lincoln after he was assassinated.
A memorial to the French heroine, the French community in Philadelphia sought the aid of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) to commemorate their centennial.
An exuberant addition to Philadelphia’s “museum without walls” that joins Center City’s other spirited pop-art icons.
Barye’s bronze symbolizes the lion of monarchy crushing the evil serpent and is the first sculpture installed in Rittenhouse Square.