The Eternal Mother is seated with arms outstretched. Flanking her are two standing female figures: one representing Compassion and another that personifies Death. In 2019, Social Consciousness was relocated from the West Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the University of Pennsylvania.

The Mounted Amazon Attacked by a Panther was the work of German sculptor August Kiss. Caught in the midst of the attack, the figures convey the violence and emotional tension of the moment.

In the movie “Rocky III” (1982), a massive statue of Philadelphia fighter Rocky Balboa, arms raised in triumph, is unveiled in the courtyard of the Museum of Art. In real life, actor Sylvester Stallone presented the statue to the City of Philadelphia.

Two sculptural groups with central figures symbolizing a universal Mother and a Doctor—allegorical expressions of the care, comfort, and guidance that adults can offer to children.

To accompany Maurice Sterne’s Welcoming to Freedom in the Ellen Phillips Memorial‘s Central Terrace, the Samuel Memorial committee chose to commission a figure of an unshackled slave.

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.”

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.

Artist Ahron Ben-Shmuel was commissioned to create a sculpture for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial that would commemorate the working men and women who helped build the United States.

Inspired by Philadelphia’s rich tradition of democracy and respect for free speech, “OPEN AIR” transformed Philadelphia’s night sky with 24 powerful robotic searchlights that were directed by participants’ voices and GPS locations.

Following the assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) established a fund to create a fitting memorial.