Galusha Pennypacker, a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, became at age 22 the youngest general to serve in the Civil War.

The New England Society of Pennsylvanians asked Augustus Saint-Gaudens to make a replica of “The Puritan” located in Springfield, Massachusetts for the city of Philadelphia. Gaudens made some changes in the figure’s dress and adjusted the facial characteristics for “The Pilgrim.”

Artist Ahron Ben-Shmuel was commissioned to create a sculpture for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial that would commemorate the working men and women who helped build the United States.

A memorial to the French heroine, the French community in Philadelphia sought the aid of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) to commemorate their centennial.

Inspired by and rendered after a family goat, this sculpture was one of several animals that Albert Laessle created.

Poised in a Greek dress, the figure draws on classical imagery – characteristic of Paul Manship’s earlier works.

For the bicentennial celebration in 1976, artist Robert Indiana lent the city a large aluminum sculpture of his “love” image. Indiana first produced this design as a painting in 1964.

Hand-fabricated from thousands of pieces of stainless steel pipe, plate, and rods, Symbiosis is part of Roxy Paine’s “Dendroid” series.

“Schiller” was commissioned by the Canstatter Volksfest-Verein, and is a companion piece to “Goethe” also located on the Horticulture Center grounds.

A Philadelphia philanthropist offered $25,000 toward a memorial to the fallen Pennsylvanian, Major General John Fulton Reynolds, who was killed by a sharpshooter in Gettysburg in 1863.