To accompany Maurice Sterne’s Welcoming to Freedom in the Ellen Phillips Memorial‘s Central Terrace, the Samuel Memorial committee chose to commission a figure of an unshackled slave.

Artist Heinz Warneke was well known for his animal sculptures, but also created monumental human figures for a number of public sites, including government buildings in Washington, D.C.

Atmosphere and Environment XII is a product of the mature style of Louise Nevelson, one of the most influential artists of the decades following World War II.

Celebrating Philadelphia’s pivotal and unique role in the American labor movement, the artwork transforms Elmwood Park into a community gathering space and an “outdoor history lesson.”

Kreis’s monument in the South Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial shows three male figures of varying ages, signifying the agreement of young and old to forge a self-governing republic.

Opposite The Ploughman in the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, John Flannagan’s The Miner commemorates the thousands of Americans who traveled west in search of wealth.

The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial committee sought to commission a work that would represent those American pioneers who journeyed west in search of new land to settle.

Political intelligence and military might, twin necessities of the new republic, are the subject of Erwin Frey’s two figures: The Statesman and The Revolutionary Soldier.

The writer who helps to shape the imagination of the country is represented in José de Creeft’s sculpture of a draped poet clutching his writings to his breast.

Commissioned by the General Service Administration’s Art in Architecture program, this Louise Nevelson sculpture was dedicated during an elaborate reception in January 1976, at the dawn of the bicentennial year.