Artwork
Welcoming to Freedom
(1939)
by
Maurice Sterne (1878 - 1957)
Central Terrace of Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial Sculpture Garden (north of Boathouse Row on Kelly Drive)
A bronze group in the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial symbolizing “the welcoming of the oppressed from all lands.”
Artwork
The Birth of a Nation
(1942)
by
Henry Kreis (1899 - 1963)
South Terrace of Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial (north of Boathouse Row on Kelly Drive)
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.
Artwork
Split Button
(1981)
by
Claes Oldenburg (1929 - 2022),
Coosje van Bruggen (1942 - 2009)
University of Pennsylvania, Blanche Levy Park, Locust Walk between 34 and 36th Streets
Artist Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Burggen, collaborated on the Split Button, which has become a familiar part of the University of Pennsylvania campus environment.
A statue erected for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition of Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and was the only active clergyman in the Continental Congress.
Face down on a hard pedestal, Brower Hatcher’s space traveler has crash-landed in the midst of a Center City plaza. The plaza surrounding the sculpture takes the form of an ancient amphitheater and garden, with columns, classical fragments, vines, and other plantings, and a mysterious small pyramid.
Artwork
Stone Age in America
(1887)
by
John J. Boyle (1851 - 1917)
South of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, Kelly Drive north of Boathouse Row
The Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) commissioned John J. Boyle to create a Native American sculpture for Fairmount Park. At its current site, Stone Age in America takes its place with other sculptures “emblematic” of American history.
Artwork
Sleeping Woman
(1991)
by
Stephen Berg (1934 - 2014),
Tom Chimes (1921 - 2009)
Kelly Drive on the Schuylkill River retaining wall between "Cowboy" and "Playing Angels," Fairmount Park
Poet Stephen Berg and visual artist Tom Chimes describe Sleeping Woman as a “choral voice rising out of the site.” The collaborative work was created specifically for its location along the Schuylkill River.
Commissioned to honor the Pennsylvania Railroad employees who died in World War II, Walker Hancock’s heroic bronze presents the Archangel Michael, angel of the Resurrection, lifting a lifeless soldier in his arms.
A former jewelry maker, Matthias Baldwin designed the first U.S.-made steam locomotive in 1831. His company became one of the largest makers of locomotives in the world.
A memorial in Fairmount Park to General Meade, best known for defeating General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg.