Artwork
Orestes and Pylades Fountain
(1884)by Carl Johann Steinhauser (1813 - 1879)
Oxford Street at 33rd Street Entrance to East Fairmount ParkThe fountain, in East Fairmount Park, shows the two seated figures of Orestes and Pylades with a bust of Diana on a plinth behind them.
Chief Justice John Marshall
(1931)by William Wetmore Story (1819 - 1895)
West Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of ArtJames M. Beck, Vice-President of the Fairmount Park Art Association and a member of the United States Congress, commissioned a plaster replica of the original sculpture in D.C from which a bronze cast could be made and placed in Philadelphia.
Eagles
(1904)by Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870 - 1952)
Market Street Bridge over the Schuylkill RiverFour eagles, carved from Milford pink granite, originally created as ornamental figures for the Pennsylvania Station in New York City, are now installed on the Market Street Bridge over the Schuylkill River.
Philada Book of Just Hours
(1995)by Phillips Simkin (1944 - 2013)
Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center, Juniper and Filbert Streets (southwest entrance)A multi-media law library constructed of metal, bronze, and law books for the southwest corner arcade of the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center.
Cow Elephant and Calf
(1962)by Heinz Warneke (1895 - 1983)
Philadelphia Zoo, 34th Street and Girard AvenueThe project originated in 1959, when the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) invited a group of sculptors to submit designs for a work to be placed in the northern section of the zoo
Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial
(1933 – 1961)by Various Artists
Kelly Drive along the Schuylkill River, south of the Girard Avenue BridgeThe Association for Public Art established and maintains the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial. The Memorial includes three terraces and seventeen sculptures that were commissioned over a period of thirty years.
Bear and Cub
(1957)by Joseph J. Greenberg, Jr. (1915-1991)
Philadelphia Zoo, near Bear Country (bear pits); zoo admission (fee) required to view this sculptureMore approachable than the average bruin, and even more durable, the mother bear and her cub were commissioned for the Philadelphia Zoo by the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art).
Dr. J. William White Memorial
(1922)by R. Tait McKenzie (1867 - 1938), Paul Phillippe Cret (1876 - 1945)
Rittenhouse Square, Walnut Street between 18th and 19th StreetsIn memory of Dr. J. William White, founding member of the Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association.