An exuberant addition to Philadelphia’s “museum without walls” that joins Center City’s other spirited pop-art icons.
Artwork
Lion Crushing a Serpent
(1832, cast 1891)
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Antoine-Louis Barye (1796 - 1875)
Rittenhouse Square, Walnut Street between 18th and 19th Streets
Barye’s bronze symbolizes the lion of monarchy crushing the evil serpent and is the first sculpture installed in Rittenhouse Square.
Artwork
Billy
(1914)
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Albert Laessle (1877 - 1954)
Rittenhouse Square, Walnut Street between 18th and 19th Streets
Inspired by and rendered after a family goat, this sculpture was one of several animals that Albert Laessle created.
Artwork
Duck Girl
(1911)
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Paul Manship (1885 – 1966)
Rittenhouse Square, Children's Pool, Walnut Street between 18th and 19th Streets
Poised in a Greek dress, the figure draws on classical imagery – characteristic of Paul Manship’s earlier works.
Artwork
Symbiosis
(2011)
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Roxy Paine (b. 1966)
Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 24th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue (Iroquois Park)
Hand-fabricated from thousands of pieces of stainless steel pipe, plate, and rods, Symbiosis is part of Roxy Paine’s “Dendroid” series.
Artwork
Iroquois
(1983 – 1999)
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Mark di Suvero (b. 1933)
Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval and Spring Garden Street (Iroquois Park)
Mark di Suvero’s monumental Iroquois has a robust energy and physical presence. The abstract sculpture is formed from painted steel I-beams, which are emblematic of the artist’s use of industrial materials.
Three bronze Native Americans that represent Philadelphia’s three main waterways: the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, and Wissahickon Creek.