In honor of the U.S. Bicentennial, the people of Poland donated this bronze sculpture of Tadeusz (Thaddeus) Kosciuszko, who came from Poland to fight in America’s Revolutionary War.
Even on a windless day, the cape swirls around this hero of three revolutionary wars.
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.
These two Tennessee marble pylons on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway commemorate Civil War soldiers and sailors.
Located opposite the main entrance of the Franklin Institute, the bronze sphere is dedicated to the aviators who died in World War I.
Just four days after the death of General Grant in 1885, the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) formed a committee to create a fund for erecting an appropriate memorial.
Pinto wanted to link the human body with the natural environment in such a way that viewers themselves, passing through the work, would help to establish the connection.
The Honorable Samuel Beecher Hart, a Pennsylvania legislator and captain of the Gray Invincibles, proposed a memorial to the state’s African American military men who had served the United States in wartime.
The artwork includes vividly colored aluminum acrobats, silhouette figures, and lowercase script letters that spell out “The Huge Theater of the Moon.”