Artwork

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies

(2017)

by Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957)

Benjamin Franklin Parkway

The internationally renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang draws on memories of the traditional lantern festivals of his childhood for his latest site-specific project.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Orestes and Pylades Fountain

(1884)

by Carl Johann Steinhauser (1813 - 1879)

Oxford Street at 33rd Street Entrance to East Fairmount Park

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.