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.”
“Sculpture,” said Henry Moore, “should always at first sight have some obscurities, and further meanings.”
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.
This bronze monument, which honors an important Austrian composer was awarded to the United German Singers of Philadelphia at the 16th National Saengerfest.
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).
A trompe l’oeil mural by artist Richard Haas located at 2300 Chestnut 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.
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.
These two Tennessee marble pylons on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway commemorate Civil War soldiers and sailors.
This sculpture is the first full-size reconstruction of the 100-million-year-old dinosaur, Deinonychus
Don Diego de Gardoqui served as a financial intermediary during the Revolutionary War, helping bring funds and arms from Spain to America.