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Cataloging Philadelphia's Public Art on the web since 1998. Posting daily random page links with pictures and updates to the web site. Sharing other people's Philadelphia Public Art, Public Art, and Philadelphia related posts on a limited basis.

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Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 15h

Today's random page is Person: Duke Ellington www.philart.net/person/Duke_... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: part of "Homage to Mike Mattio, Master Plumber", Isaiah Zagar, 2000, which includes references to several Jazz musicians)

Mosaic completely covering a wall with windows and a door. The portion pictured includes right side up and upside down faces, crouching person, names and other words.

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Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 1d

Today's random page is Person: Robert R. Livingston www.philart.net/person/Rober... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Declaration of Independence", Tiequn Geng, Guangxi Qihe Bronze Studio, Dr. Komuro Hiromi, Dr. QiongZhao (Ellen) Schicktanz, John Trumbull, 2017 (installed))

This large relief panel, mounted on the North wall of the Museum of the American Revolution, was generated from Trumbull's painting of the same name. Small people, some standing, some sitting, furniture, paper and pens, interior of Independence Hall.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 2d

Today's random page is Person: Abraham Lincoln www.philart.net/person/Abrah... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art #Lincoln (pictured: detail from "Abraham Lincoln", Randolph Rogers, 1871)

Detail of a statue of a seated Lincoln from about the knees up. Lincoln is looking up and to the left and there is a scroll (The Emancipation Proclamation) in his left hand His right rand, which is off camera, is holding a quill pen.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 3d

Today's random page is Landmark: Centre Square www.philart.net/landmark/Cen... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Clothespin", Claes Oldenburg, 1976)

* big clothespin, abstract standing people
* The sculpture is an elongated version of Brancusi's "Kiss".

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 4d

Today's random page is Person: Joseph Bandos www.philart.net/person/Josep... #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Berg Laboratories Explosion Memorial", unidentified artist, 2008)

11 individual plaques on the sidewalk outside City Hall in a circle of concrete surrounded by 2 rings of dark grey pavers. The plaques are arranged in 5 centered rows suggesting a cross: 1,2,5,2,1.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 5d

Today's random page is the entry for the stikman on the West side of 25th, in the Northwestbound lanes of Pennsylvania (stikman, unidentified year) www.philart.net/art/stikman_... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art

Very thin relief on the street. A white stikman with yellow triangles and white lines of various lengths above, to the left, and below him. The stikman is standing on one of the lines.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 6d

Today's random page is Person: Angel Moroni www.philart.net/person/Angel... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Angel Moroni"
Karl Quilter, 1998 (original, copy installed 2016))

Golden figure standing on a ball on top of a spire against a grey sky, body twisted to his left, looking up and to the right blowing a long trumpet held in his right hand, arm angled up and bent at the elbow. left arm swinging behind him.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 7d

Today's random page is Year: 300 www.associationforpublicart.org/the-internat... #Philly #PublicArt (pictured: Spheres, unidentified Pre-Columbian artists from what is now Costa Rica, 300 - 1525 (approximate range of possible dates))

One of two stone spheres. The surrounding sunken circular wall and bench are in the background.

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peter kim @peterskim.org · 8d

A big point of #WeekWithoutDriving is to highlight the barriers to mobility for people who are unable to drive due to various disabilities.

I once had a coworker with narcolepsy so he chose to live in NYC since it’s one of the few places in the US where most people can live without a car.

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Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 8d

Today's random page is Landmark: Penn Library www.philart.net/landmark/Pen... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Pan with Sundial", Beatrice Fenton, 1938)

Small statue of a pan playing pipes shot from the left and slightly behind looking down. He is twisting back and left looking up at the camera, his head tilted toward his right shoulder playing pipes. His right knee (not visible) is on the ground. His left knee is bent. His right elbow rests on his left knee, his left elbow is bent and horizontal to his side. A sundial rests on the left side of his bent head and his left shoulder.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 9d

Today's random page is the entry for "General Casimir Pulaski"
(Sidney Waugh, 1947) www.philart.net/art/General_... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art

Statue of Pulaski standing with his feet apart, a saber in his right hand with the point on the ground between his feet. He is looking over his right shoulder.

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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 11d

“The Habitable Skin,” is an insect bridge in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District. It’s an art installation that’s interactive–for species other than humans. But it’s inviting us humans to envision a future where cities can live in better harmony with insects and animals to foster more biodiversity.

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Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 10d

Today's random page is the entry for the Logan Square version of Bike Cloud (Ralph Tullie, 2014) www.philart.net/art/Bike_Clo... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art

Two identical bike racks sticking up from round plates bolted to the sidewalk shot looking down and at an angle. Each consists of a yellow tube bent into slightly more than a semicircle. At ground level, under the yellow tube, attached to the left end of the yellow tube is a flat blue semicircle with the straight edge along the ground, a little less than half the height of the yellow tube and a little more than half the width. Attached at two points to the yellow tube is a purple tube bent into a a circle with the same diameter as the blue semicircle. The left side of the purple tube is attached at the top of the yellow tube and a point to the right of the bottom of the purple tube is attached to a point on the yellow tube along the right. Both racks cast shadows on the sidewalk.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 11d

Today's random page is Artist: Robert Roesch www.philart.net/artist/Rober... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Peacock Light Rail Shelters", Suzanne Reese Horvitz, Robert Roesch, 2002)

Westbound shelter for the G (formerly the 15) on a traffic island between the tracks on the left and cars on the right. The picture is looking West at the green East wall of the shelter. There is a 3D elongated brown metal pyramid from the sidewalk to about 2/3 of the way up the wall. The tip is in front of a yellow teardrop shape with white metal feather forms radiating out and up to the bottom of the roof creating a very abstract peacock.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 12d

Today's random page is Architecture: Walls and Windows www.philart.net/architecture... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: Women Around Window, Wilson Eyre (Architect), 1896 (approximate year of building))

Round window 9 full panes and 9 partial panes. There are relief figures of women on both sides of the window, following the curves. The woman on the left is facing the street, her left side against the window, her left arm extended against and toward the top of the window, looking to her right. The woman on the right is facing to her left, her back against the curve of the window, looking down, her right arm extended behind her against and toward the top of the window.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 13d

Today's random page is Artist: Costantino Nivola www.philart.net/artist/Costa... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: one of two panels from "Family of Man", 1961)

Large concrete relief (10 feet high, 18 feet wide) of abstract forms suggesting humans recessed into the wall of the Penn Library. There is a metal fence at the bottom of the picture with bikes chained to it.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 14d

Today's random page is Artist: Mike Smash www.philart.net/artist/Mike_... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Mosaic Project", 2005)

Wooden fence with a locked chain link gate in the middle, maybe 3 or 4 feet wide on each side of the gate, with an arch over the gate. The fence is painted a light blue covered with stars and round shapes that are possibly planets. There is a star sticking up from both the top left and top right corners. On the arch in gold letters on a dark blue background with small white and 3 larger gold stars is a sign that says WELCOME in all caps.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 15d

Today's random page is Landmark: St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church www.philart.net/landmark/St_... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: small statue of Mary, unidentified artist and year)

small white stone statue of Mary on a short base in front of the North wall of the church. She is wearing a cloak and a long dress or robe, her head is tilted slightly to the right, her hands are pressed together in front of her, arms bent at the elbow, and there is a rosary with a cross hanging from her right elbow.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 16d

Today's random page is Person: Anthony Wayne www.philart.net/person/Antho... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "General Anthony Wayne", John Gregory, 1937)

Detail from the front of a gold-colored sculpture: General Wayne from about the waist up and the head of the horse he is riding. Wayne is wearing a s bicorne hat with a vertical tassel.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 17d

Today's random page is the entry for "Living Flame Memorial"(Reginald Beauchamp, 1976, painted 2006) www.philart.net/art/Living_F... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art

A glass representation of flame on top of a round, tapered down, base, on top of three long poles (maybe 6 feet) splayed slightly outward. The base under the flame is painted black on top with a white band around the bottom. Attached to the tops of the poles and the bottom of the base are police and fire logos painted black. When originally photographed the whole thing was a metallic grey.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 18d

Today's random page is Artist: Harry Sternfeld (Design Architect) www.philart.net/artist/Harry... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: WCAU Building, 1932)

Wall above the door at 1622 Chestnut. Dark grey stone vertical rectangle. Four white squared off oval relief medallions arranged vertically above the address. There are small triangle insets in the lower left of the rectangle with a blue stripe and smaller white triangles. Four diagonal stripes radiate up on either side of the medallions parallel to the hypotenuses of the triangles at the base. The stripes have the same white and blue pattern as the base triangles and are also inset with white radio waves. The medallions from the top down appear to be a face, lyre, book, and microphone

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 19d

Today's random page is Landmark: Ormandy Ballroom www.philart.net/landmark/Orm... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: "Eugene Ormandy", unidentified artist, 1983 (guess. Year of hotel construction))

Built into a wall with a pleated curtain effect, inside a cutout in the wall, is the flat back of a man (presumably Ormandy) from the conductor's stand to his shoulders, dressed in black coat and tails with white cuffs. His right hand, holding a baton, is behind his back. Black cutouts of seated orchestra members are visible past him.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 20d

Today's random page is the entry for "George Washington" (Joseph Alexis Bailly, 1869) www.philart.net/art/George_W... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art

Statue of a standing George Washington in front of Independence Mall from the top of the base up. Washington's right hand is resting on a book on top of a cloth-draped pedestal. There is a cane in his left hand.

Philadelphia Public Art @ philart.net @philartdotnet.bsky.social · 21d

Today's random page is Person: Samuel Livingston Breese www.philart.net/person/Samue... #Philly #PublicArt #VisitPhilly #art (pictured: Turkish Catapult Stones, 1400 - 1499)

A mostly spherical stone sitting on a short brick column. There is a small plaque on the front of the column and a bush of some sort in the background.

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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 23d

Sharing this sneak preview of Calder Gardens that I got today! I was deeply impressed by the space, the gardens, the art, the architecture. And I think you will be too. Calder Gardens opens this weekend!

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