Artwork

Artwork

Three Way Piece Number 1: Points

(1964)

by Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)

Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 16th and 17th Streets

“Sculpture,” said Henry Moore, “should always at first sight have some obscurities, and further meanings.”

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Playing Angels

(1950)

by Carl Milles (1875 - 1955)

Kelly Drive at Fountain Green Drive

Three slim angels concentrate raptly on their music as they hover above the grass along Kelly Drive. The work of Swedish-born artist Carl Milles, they are casts from a group of originals from the Millesgården in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Franz Schubert

(1891)

by Henry Baerer (1837 - 1908)

Horticulture Center grounds (Belmont Avenue and North Horticultural Drive, West Fairmount Park)

This bronze monument, which honors an important Austrian composer was awarded to the United German Singers of Philadelphia at the 16th National Saengerfest.

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Night

(1872)

by Edward Stauch (1830 - ?)

Horticulture Center grounds (Belmont Avenue and North Horticultural Drive, West Fairmount Park)

This allegorical bronze cast depicts descending nightfall as a shrouded woman. It was the first gift to the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art).

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2300 Chestnut Street

(1983)

by Richard Haas (b. 1936)

2300 Chestnut Street

A trompe l’oeil mural by artist Richard Haas located at 2300 Chestnut Street.

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All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors

(1934)

by J. Otto Schweizer (1863 - 1955)

Logan Square, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 20th Street

The Honorable Samuel Beecher Hart, a Pennsylvania legislator and captain of the Gray Invincibles, proposed a memorial to the state’s African American military men who had served the United States in wartime.

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Benjamin Franklin (on a bench)

(1987)

by George Lundeen (b. 1948)

University of Pennsylvania, 37th Street and Locust Walk (SE corner)

Sitting on a bench with a newspaper in hand and a pigeon at his side, this sculpture was a gift from the University of Pennsylvania’s class of 1962.

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Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial

(1921)

by Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866 - 1947)

Logan Square, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 20th Street

These two Tennessee marble pylons on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway commemorate Civil War soldiers and sailors.

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Deinonychus

(1987)

by Kent Ullberg (b. 1945)

The Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

This sculpture is the first full-size reconstruction of the 100-million-year-old dinosaur, Deinonychus

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Don Diego de Gardoqui

(1977)

by Luis Antonio Sanguino (b. 1934)

Sister Cities Park, 18th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Don Diego de Gardoqui served as a financial intermediary during the Revolutionary War, helping bring funds and arms from Spain to America.