PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Thanks to a very generous $5 million grant to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2001, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway today became the site for the second in an on-going series of displays of artistic treasures that will augment the enjoyment of any stroll along the parkway for the next year. The constellation of 11 outdoor sculptures by the Philadelphiaborn sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976)—one of the great artists of the 20th century—is situated at 22nd Street and the Parkway, on the site of the proposed Calder Museum. The much-anticipated installation brings to Philadelphia eight new loans from the Calder Foundation that range over the two decades during which the artist was most engaged in the creation of outdoor sculptures on a monumental scale. They include Funghi Neri (1957); Discontinuous (1962); Polygons on Triangles (1963); The Rocket (1964); Dent de Sagesse (Wisdom Tooth) (1964); The Tall One (1968); Untitled (1972); and Angulaire (1975). All are constructed of sheet metal, painted black. This group of elegant sculptures now gracefully interacts with Ordinary (1969), the 21-foot tall, multi-colored stabile/mobile that had already occupied the site, and with two other painted, metal stabiles that formerly were seen in the garden of the Rodin Museum, including The Pagoda (1963), also lent by the Calder Family Foundation, and Three Discs, One Lacking (1968), owned by the City of Philadelphia. With the installation of Calder’s works along the Parkway, Philadelphians and visitors alike can fully appreciate the boldness and brilliance of Calder’s art as they approach the area where the new museum is expected to rise.