Fairmount Park
Sprawling riverside park system studded with more than two hundred public sculptures and historic mansions.
This guide to Fairmount Park in Philadelphia starts with a trick question: how big is the park, really, and why do the official boundaries and the guidebook totals never agree? From there it traces the 1872 founding of the Fairmount Park Art Association, when Charles Howell and Henry Fox recruited banker Anthony Drexel and a circle of friends to put art outside museum walls, free for anyone to stumble across. Their first pieces were modest, a bronze called Night, a pack of snarling wolves by Edward Kemeys, a dying lioness cast by a German sculptor, before names like Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French joined the hillsides.
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