Anthony Wayne Equestrian Statue The inscription on the pedestal of the monument reads as follows: ANTHONY WAYNE 1745-1796 Erected by the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution MCMXXXVII To Anthony Wayne, A memorial of his valour a tribute to his achievements for our Country's Independence at its birth: We, the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution hereby inscribe his name in honor. 1937 The Wayne Monument is the Society's greatest single tribute to the Pennsylvania soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Its dedication on 26 June 1938 culminated an effort begun more than forty years earlier. The Board of Managers of the Society established a Wayne Monument Committee in April 1895 and set a fund raising goal of $50,000. The Commissioners of Fairmount Park reserved a site for the monument and the Committee began soliciting funds. In the years which followed, however, only about twenty percent of the goal was achieved. The Fund was permitted to mature and by 1934 amounted to $30,000, but the cost of erecting a statue of heroic size, as originally planned, has increased well beyond that figure. Meanwhile precisely such a statue had been erected by the Commonwealth at Valley Forge. In March 1934 the Committee commissioned as sculptor John Gregory of New York and as architect of the pedestal, Paul P. Cret, the noted Philadelphia architect. Gregory prepared the model by copying the uniform worm by General Wayne (which remained in the possession of one of his descendants) and by having access to the sword and stirrups used by him (which were in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania). After the Committee approved the model, it was cast in bronze covered with gold leaf. The last step was taken to assure the monument's retention of a golden bronze appearance. The statue and pedestal were completed early in 1938 and placed on the terrace of the recently completed Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the monument remains today.