“The Preacher,” with his hands cupped near his chin as he speaks, is an emblem of the religious figures who have “guided our ways.”
This standing figure along with The Quaker by artist Harry Rosin was intended to represent major spiritual forces in the settling of the seaboard of the United States.
The bronze by artist Jo Davidson captures the spirit of the free-striding American bard. This is a second cast from a plaster original.
Loosely brushed blocks of color, white chalky patches and lines, and confetti-like patterns are layered over larger fields of color, and these forms are framed by sections of stripes and checkerboard grids. To Brooker, the checkerboard, seen in many of his paintings, represents “options, possibilities, and what could happen.”
Military might and political intelligence, twin necessities of the new republic, are the subject of Erwin Frey’s two figures: The Revolutionary Soldier and The Statesman.
For Philadelphia casts light on the Comcast Technology Center Lobby with writings from local and global participants.
A celebration of the earliest settlers of the United States, Wheeler Williams’ Settling of the Seaboard is a relief carving of four figures.
The massive bronze installed in the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial represents America’s “Constructive Enterprise” — “the vigor, the power of harnessed nature, or the strength of men harnessing nature and making it conform to their uses and desires.”
A bronze group in the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial symbolizing “the welcoming of the oppressed from all lands.”