Philadelphia Public Art @philart.net

Year: 1939

Ivy Day Stones
1936 - 1948
* small ivy leaves, idea
* There are Ivy Day stones all over the Penn campus, but these are particularly sculptural.
* West wall. Irvine Auditorium. Northwest of 34th and Spruce.
* 39.950965,-75.193260 [map] [nearby]
* On the Penn Campus tour
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Ivy Day page
+Ivy Day Stones brochure at upenn.edu
+wikipedia.org's Irvine Auditorium page

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Walt Whitman
Jo Davidson, 1939 (cast 1957, installed 1959)
* Statue of Walt Whitman
* standing person carrying a hat
* Southwest corner, Broad and Packer, on the approach to the onramp.
* 39.911460,-75.173325 [map] [nearby]
* On the South Broad tour
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Jo Davidson page
+wikipedia.org's Walt Whitman page

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Welcoming to Freedom
Maurice Sterne, 1939
* Quotes from William Cullen Bryant and Abraham Lincoln
* two people, one standing, one sitting
* inscription:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right. As God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in.
- Abraham Lincoln
Here the free spirit of mankind at length throws its first fetters off and who shall place a limit to the giant's unchained strength, or curb his swiftness in the forward race.
- William Cullen Bryant
* Central Terrace Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial. Kelly Drive, past Boat House Row.
* 39.973885,-75.191000 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Maurice Sterne page
+wikipedia.org's William Cullen Bryant page
+wikipedia.org's Abraham Lincoln page
+associationforpublicart.org's Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial page