The Fisherman

The Fisherman is a work of art in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. The Fisherman is situated nearby to the park Esplanade, as well as near South Garden, Fairmount Water Works.

Type: Work of art
Artwork type: statue
Also known as: “Celebration of Water”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Philadelphia Museum of Art and Rocky Steps.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. Philadelphia Museum of Art is situated 700 feet east of The Fisherman.

Rocky Steps

Photo: su1droot, CC BY 2.0.

The Rocky Steps is an informal name to the 72 stone steps leading up to the East entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia that gained global fame after being featured in a notable scene from the 1976 film Rocky. Rocky Steps is situated 900 feet east of The Fisherman.

MLK Drive Bridge

Bridge

The MLK Drive Bridge is a steel girder bridge built in 1966 over the Schuylkill River on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation owns and maintains the bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mantua and Fairmount.

Mantua

Neighborhood

Photo: Roesluna, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mantua is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located north of Spring Garden Street, east of 40th Street, south of Mantua Avenue, and west of 31st Street.

Fairmount

Neighborhood

Photo: goosegoddesss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fairmount is a neighborhood within Lower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries are north of Fairmount Avenue, west of Corinthian Avenue, south of Girard Avenue and east of The Schuylkill River.

Powelton Village

Neighborhood

Photo: MikeJones133, Public domain.

Powelton Village is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of mostly Victorian and twin style homes.

The Fisherman

Category: tourism
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.96496° or 39° 57′ 54″ north

Longitude

-75.18331° or 75° 10′ 60″ west

Inception

1989

Open location code

87F6XR78+XM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8069734019

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=statue

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Highlights include Esplanade and South Garden, Fairmount Water Works.

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