Artwork
The Gates of Hell
(1880-1917)
by
Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917)
Rodin Museum entrance, Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 21st and 22nd Streets
The theme for Rodin’s Gates of Hell derives from Dante’s Inferno, but Rodin incorporated dozens of figures that have no strict parallel in the poem.
Octavius V. Catto was one of the most influential African American leaders in Philadelphia during the 19th century.
Artwork
Winter Fountains
(2017-2018)
by
Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958)
Benjamin Franklin Parkway (Aviator Park, Rodin Museum, Park Towne Place, and Spring Garden Triangle)
A centerpiece for the Parkway 100 celebration, Jennifer Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains illuminated the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with the artist’s dream-like digital animations.
Artwork
Big Bling
(2016)
by
Martin Puryear (b. 1941)
Along Kelly Drive between Fountain Green Drive and the Connecting Railway and Girard Avenue Bridges
The Association for Public Art, working with New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy in a first-time collaboration, brought internationally acclaimed artist Martin Puryear’s Big Bling to Philadelphia as a temporary installation on Kelly Drive.
Artwork
Calder Statues
(1897 – 1899)
by
Alexander Stirling Calder (1870 - 1945)
Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street
These larger-than-life statues at the Presbyterian Historical Society represent six important figures in early American Presbyterianism.
The internationally renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang draws on memories of the traditional lantern festivals of his childhood for his latest site-specific project.
Artwork
City Hall
(1871-1901)
by
Alexander Milne Calder (1846 - 1923)
City Hall, Penn Square at Broad and Market Streets
The exterior and interior of City Hall contain over 250 works of sculpture, many of which relate to Philadelphia’s government and history, principally attributed to one man, Alexander Milne Calder.
Artwork
Joe Frazier
(2015)
by
Stephen Layne (b. 1968)
XFINITY Live! Philadelphia, Pattison at 11th Street
This commemorative statue depicts legendary Philadelphia boxer Joe Frazier during the “Fight of the Century” in 1971, when he knocked out Muhammad Ali with a left hook.
Artwork
Diana
(1892)
by
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 - 1907)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Great Stair Hall (interior)
Diana is the Roman goddess of the hunt, and here stands nude, balanced on one foot on a copper ball, with bow and arrow poised to shoot.
The fountain, in East Fairmount Park, shows the two seated figures of Orestes and Pylades with a bust of Diana on a plinth behind them.