Open Air Aquarium is a group of thirty unique abstract brushed stainless steel fish, mounted on 12-foot-high stainless steel poles at The Residences at Dockside at Penn’s Landing.

A “cosmogram” celebrating the theme of freedom, the artwork was fabricated from over five tons of Pennsylvania black and midnight gray granite, with hundreds of sandblasted letters.

As the Fairmount Water Works expanded in the 1820s, the city’s Watering Committee decided to embellish the site with emblematic sculpture and commissioned William Rush, the foremost American sculptor of his era, for the project.

An Irish immigrant, Fitzsimons founded a major trading company that provided supplies and funds to American forces during the Revolutionary War. The statue stands near Don Diego de Gardoqui in Sister Cities Park.

Commissioned as a part of the Redevelopment Authority’s 1% program, Albert Paley’s steel sculpture frames the 18th Street entrance of the North X Northwest apartment building.

The Irish Memorial An Gorta Mor, translated to “The Great Hunger,” is a monumental bronze sculpture that commemorates the millions of Irish who died of starvation from 1845-1850 as well as the hundreds of thousands who migrated to America.

A pioneer in modern marketing and advertising, John Wanamaker founded the nearby emporium (now Macy’s) that bore his name for more than a century.

Dedicated in November 2003, 125 Years by artist Jenny Holzer recognizes the anniversary of 125 Years of Women at Penn (celebrated November 1-2, 2001).

The ten-ton gates at the Packard Building are a fine example of Yellin’s larger commissioned works. He also created the building’s exterior lighting fixtures, which are still in place, and grilles that have been removed.

This impassioned memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was commissioned by the Association of Jewish New Americans, a group of several hundred families, many of whom had fled Europe in the wake of Hitler’s destruction.