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LOVE Park, officially known as John F. Kennedy Plaza, is a public park located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The park is across from the Philadelphia City Hall and serves as a visual terminus for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway .
This sculpture is no longer there (visited 12 May 2016) Jerusalem – An Indiana sculpture showing the Hebrew word for love (Hebrew: אהבה, ahava) is displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; NY – NYC – Kasmin Gallery displaying three blocks: AHAVA, LOVE, AMOR on top of a building along the High Line at 27th Street - No longer there
The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial is a sculpture garden located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The garden, located along the left bank of the Schuylkill River between Boathouse Row and the Girard Avenue Bridge, was established by the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) and dedicated in 1961.
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This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [ 1 ] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [ 2 ] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]
Fisherwoman at the base of the statue. Just inside the northwest edge of Eakins Oval, in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art stairs, stands the Washington Monument fountain. It was commissioned and designed by sculptor Rudolf Siemering. The sculpture was dedicated in 1897 at the Green Street entrance to Fairmount Park.
Statue of Kate Smith; Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Philadelphia) Statue of Anthony J. Drexel; Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Philadelphia) Statue of Edgar Fahs Smith; Statue of Frank Rizzo; Statue of George Whitefield; Statue of Matthias W. Baldwin; Stone Age in America; Swann ...
The park is referred to by Claudette Colbert in the 1934 film She Married Her Boss.. James A. Michener wrote a novel in 1949 entitled The Fires of Spring, telling the story of a young orphan boy named David Harper growing up in a poorhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, which is near Willow Grove Park.