Hailed as “one of America’s outstanding figurative sculptors,” work by George Anthonisen deals primarily with the immutable essence of the individual person, the family, and human society in a changing world. His public works in permanent collections are considerably longer than the following: U. S. Capitol, Capitol Visitors Center (Emancipation Hall), Washington, DC; World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; New York’s Carnegie Hall (Shorin Club Room); Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum, Woodmere Art Museum and Curtis Institute of Music; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania; The Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville Pennsylvania; Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; Center for Interfaith Relations, Louisville, Kentucky; Jackie Robinson Museum, New York, NY and more than two dozen other sites.