Artist Heinz Warneke was well known for his animal sculptures, but also created monumental human figures for a number of public sites, including government buildings in Washington, D.C.

Atmosphere and Environment XII is a product of the mature style of Louise Nevelson, one of the most influential artists of the decades following World War II.

Celebrating Philadelphia’s pivotal and unique role in the American labor movement, the artwork transforms Elmwood Park into a community gathering space and an “outdoor history lesson.”

Opposite The Ploughman in the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, John Flannagan’s The Miner commemorates the thousands of Americans who traveled west in search of wealth.

Kreis’s monument in the South Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial shows three male figures of varying ages, signifying the agreement of young and old to forge a self-governing republic.

The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial committee sought to commission a work that would represent those American pioneers who journeyed west in search of new land to settle.

The writer who helps to shape the imagination of the country is represented in José de Creeft’s sculpture of a draped poet clutching his writings to his breast.

Inspired by primitive art, the sculpture consists of 29 intricately patterned wooden columns and four pieces affixed to the ceiling.

Political intelligence and military might, twin necessities of the new republic, are the subject of Erwin Frey’s two figures: The Statesman and The Revolutionary Soldier.

Robert Laurent’s interpretation of the American migration westward and the first sculpture installed in the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.