Brick house   A monumental sculpture by acclaimed artist Simone Leigh has been installed at the corner of 34th and Walnut Streets, the gateway to College Green at the University of Pennsylvania. Titled “Brick House,” the piece depicts a Black woman’s head atop a form that suggests a skirt or perhaps a building. It is the first large-scale piece in the artist’s Anatomy of Architecture series that merges human form with diverse architectural elements. Cast in bronze, the work stands 16 feet high, 9 feet in diameter at its base, and weighs 5,900 pounds. The piece features cowrie shells on the woman’s braids which symbolize wealth, femininity, and the African slave trade in which the shells were used as currency, The sculpture is a gift from 1987 Penn graduate Glenn Fuhrman, who also earned an MBA degree from The Wharton School the following year, and 1995 Penn graduate Amanda Fuhrman. They advocated for the sculpture's placement on Penn's campus after learning that Leigh hoped to display her artwork on a college campus.