Originally designed for an opera house in Vienna, these two winged horses and their muses were purchased by a Philadelphia businessman and installed at Memorial Hall for the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
Anthony J. Drexel was a powerful Philadelphia financier and philanthropist. He founded Drexel University and served as the first president of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art).
Considered a pioneering figure of minimalism, Tony Smith is best known for his abstract, modular sculptures. This hulking open cube of welded steel, painted black, can be walked through but also create a boxed-in feeling.
For Philadelphia casts light on the Comcast Technology Center Lobby with writings from local and global participants.
In a one-acre area at the Bluemle Life Sciences Building on Thomas Jefferson University’s campus, The Roundabout encompasses the landscape. Artist Alice Adams transformed the sire using sculptural and architectural elements, mounds of grass, plantings, pathways, and a water wall.
Marta Sanchez’s bright metal sculptures along Gurney Street were commissioned to help reclaim and beautify a struggling area of the city.
A “mast-like” spire ascends into the sky with a 16-foot spiral staircase wrapping around its base. Visitors can climb the stairs to a platform that offers views up and down the Delaware River.
Not far from the original American Bandstand studio in Philadelphia, Barbara Bullock’s colorful stainless steel dancers at SEPTA’s 46th Street Station embody the energy of jazz, soul, blues, and praise music.
The 500 square foot sculptural seating arrangement – or “outdoor room” as the artist describes it – is made up of multiple pieces of granite, marble, and red sandstone that form the shape of the infinity symbol and are punctuated at both ends by rectangular columns.