A pioneer in modern marketing and advertising, John Wanamaker founded the nearby emporium (now Macy’s) that bore his name for more than a century.
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.
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 bronze by artist Jo Davidson captures the spirit of the free-striding American bard. This is a second cast from a plaster original.
Military might and political intelligence, twin necessities of the new republic, are the subject of Erwin Frey’s two figures: The Revolutionary Soldier and The Statesman.
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.
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.
Loosely brushed blocks of color, white chalky patches and lines, and confetti-like patterns are layered over larger fields of color, and these forms are framed by sections of stripes and checkerboard grids. To Brooker, the checkerboard, seen in many of his paintings, represents “options, possibilities, and what could happen.”
“The Preacher,” with his hands cupped near his chin as he speaks, is an emblem of the religious figures who have “guided our ways.”