Robert Laurent’s interpretation of the American migration westward and the first sculpture installed in the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.

“The Preacher,” with his hands cupped near his chin as he speaks, is an emblem of the religious figures who have “guided our ways.”

This standing figure along with The Quaker by artist Harry Rosin was intended to represent major spiritual forces in the settling of the seaboard of the United States.

Alexander Stirling Calder’s monument to William Shakespeare, which depicts two figures representing Comedy and Tragedy.

The massive bronze installed in the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial represents America’s “Constructive Enterprise” — “the vigor, the power of harnessed nature, or the strength of men harnessing nature and making it conform to their uses and desires.”

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.

This standing figure along with The Puritan by artist Harry Rosin was intended to represent major spiritual forces in the settling of the seaboard of the United States.

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.

To balance the spiritual and emotional energies of “The Preacher” and “The Poet,” the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial committee commissioned a figure to represent the scientific impulse that has spurred America’s intellectual and technological development.

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.