The Reverend George Whitefield is a monumental statue which once stood on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Dedicated in 1919, it was designed by sculptor R. Tait McKenzie and honors its namesake George Whitefield, Anglican cleric who was a founder of Methodism. In 2020, in reaction to the George Floyd protests, the university administration removed the statue due to Whitefield's defense of slavery. Design The monument consisted of a bronze statue of Whitefield measuring tall and with widths of and . Whitefield is standing, with a Bible in his left hand and his right hand raised. For his depiction of Whitefield, McKenzie chose to show him as a young man. This statue stood on a three-part pedestal, with the upper limestone part having a height of , the middle stone part , and the bottom concrete and stone part . The upper and middle parts of the pedestal were hexagonal and increased in diameter from top to bottom, while the bottom part was round with flat faces on the front and back. The upper base bears inscriptions on both its front and back, with the front reading "The Reverend/George/Whitefield/Bachelor of Arts/1736/Pembroke College/Oxford" and the back reading "Humble Dis-/ciple/of Jesus Christ/Eloquent/Preacher of the/Gospel". The monument bore the inscription "The University of Pennsylvania held its first session in a building erected for his congregation and was aided by his collections, guided by his counsel and inspired by his life." It is located near the Quadrangle Dormitories. History Dedication George Whitefield was an evangelist active in the Methodist movement of the mid-1700s. During a trip to the Thirteen Colonies between 1739 and 1741, he preached in Philadelphia in a small building that had been built for that purpose. Following Whitefield's sermons, the building would be used by Benjamin Franklin as the location for a new institution of higher learning, which would eventually become the University of Pennsylvania. Around 1914, the bicentenary of Whitefield's birth, there was a push to erect a statue in his honor. The previous year, during a meeting in New York City, Methodist members of the university's alumni association discussed the possibility of erecting a statue of Whitefield, and the following year the provost of the University of Pennsylvania gave a speech in his honor that contributed to the movement. In 1914, R. Tait McKenzie, a sculptor and the university's director of physical