An official project of the bicentennial celebration, Philadelphia’s Museum of African American history and culture opened to the public in 1976, a few days after the unveiling of John Rhoden’s Nesaika.
At first glance, the sculpture appears to be an inverted pyramid of human arms, legs, and torsos, but upon further study, the figures begin to emerge more clearly.
Robert Laurent’s interpretation of the American migration westward and the first sculpture installed in the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.
A gift of the Italian Colony of Philadelphia in 1907, this was the second monument given by Italian-Americans to the City.
Late in the American Revolutionary he commanded forces in the South that drove the British back toward the coast at Charleston and became known as “the man who saved the South.”
Commissioned by the Frank L. Rizzo Monument Committee, the statue was a gift to the city paid for by contributions from his family, friends, and supporters.
Even on a windless day, the cape swirls around this hero of three revolutionary wars.
In this work, commissioned for the entrance of a bank building as part of the Redevelopment Authority’s 1% program, Bailey wanted to link the geometry of the architecture with the park-like setting of nearby Independence Mall.