Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Lincoln Park [ Siblings - by Rosetta]





Siblings
Sculptor: Rosetta ..
Unveiled: 1997 ..
Location: West of the Matthew Laflin Memorial Building on Clark Street .
Two young mountain lions reclining ..





Monday, July 27, 2009

Lincoln Park Zoo [Dream Lady / Eugene Field Memorial - by Edward Francis McCartan]






Eugene Field Memorial  -  Edward Francis McCartan
1922

Location: Lincoln Park Zoo

Erected in 1922, by school children and citizens, aided by the B.F. Ferguson Fund.

Eugene Field was best known from his children's poetry and humorous essays. This memorial has a statue of the "Dream Lady" from his poem, "Rock-a-by-Lady"...



Friday, July 24, 2009

Lincoln Park: The Children's Fountain





The Children's Fountain ...
Dedicated: 1982 ..
Description: 30 feet in diameter and stands about 30 feet high.
A project of former Chicago mayor Jane Byrne ..
Location: Near Chicago History Museum ...
At the northeast corner of Clark St. & North Ave... Chicago, IL 60639 ..

A plaque reads ..
Dedicated to all children in Chicago who will take from our past to better our future ..






It was previously located on Wacker Drive, and now it stands in the corner of North Avenue and Clark Street.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Lincoln Park [Ulysses S. Grant Memorial - by Louis Rebisso]



Ulysses S. Grant Memorial - by Louis Rebisso 

Installed: 1891 

Location: It's in the east end of the Lincoln Park Zoo overlooking the Cannon Drive


Lincoln Park Zoo Sculptures [Various Sculptures - Various Artists]


Lincoln Park Zoo sculptures



Lincoln Park Zoo

Various Sculptures - by Various Artists



Designated "Chicago Landmarks" at Lincoln Park Zoo




  • Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo..

    Lincoln Park Zoo ...
    The Lincoln Park Zoo has many attractions, I would have never guessed that it has three "Chicago Landmark" buildings:
    • Cafe Brauer / South Pond Refactory
    • Carson Cottage / Men's and Ladies' Comfort Station
    • Kovler Lion House  

    Cafe Brauer / South Pond Refactory ...
    Completed: 1908
    Architect: Dwight H. Perkins
    Location: 2021 N. Stockton Dr.
    The building is an outstanding example of the Prairie style architecture ..
    On its second-floor is the "Great Hall", which is a fine example of Arts-and-Crafts design. Its designer, Dwight Perkins, was an important progressive architect in Chicago in the early 20th century..
    # For more on Cafe Brauer, click here..


    Carson Cottage ...
    Completed: 1888
    Renovated: 2007 ...
    Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee ..
    It's a Victorian-style architecture ...
    The Carson Cottage started as a men's and ladies' comfort station [public restroom facility]. Over the years it withered. However it was restored by the Lincoln Park Zoo supporrted in part by Save Ameria's Treasures grant. Now the cottage no longer serves as a restroom, but is the hub for more than 100 volunteers who tend to the zoo’s landscaping and botanical gardens..
    # For more on Carson Cottage, click here..

    Kovler Lion House..
    Completed: 1912
    Architects: Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton..
    The building has excellent brickwork and terracotta ornament, unique lion mosaics and a grand interior with vaulted Guastavino -tile ceiling, an innovative construction technology of the time..
    # For more on Kovler Lion House, click here..

     
    Check out the map of Lincoln Park ..

    Thursday, July 16, 2009

    Lincoln Park Zoo [Rites of Spring - by Milton Horn]





    Rites of Spring ..
    Sculptor: Milton Horn ..
    The terra cotta sculpture, dating from 1952, is mounted on a brick and limestone wall designed for the sculpture. Presented by the Milton Horn Art Trust, it was unveiled in 2004.


    The plaque reads ...
    This terra-cotta work of art by Milton Horn depicts a Ram and an image of Pan, who in Greek mythology was a god of fields, forests, wild animals, flocks and shepards. The sculpture is one of the two identical pieces created in 1952 for the now-demolised Seneca-Walton Building in Chicago. They were reclaimed from a neighborhood streetscape on the city's Near North Side.

    Horn was born in Russia in 1906, emigrated to the United States in 1913 and became a naturalized citizen in 1917. he moved to Chicago in 1950. ...




    Check out Sculpture at Lincoln Park Zoo .. click here ..
    Check out Lincoln Park Sculpture Map and Tour .. click here ..

    Wednesday, July 15, 2009

    Lincoln Park: Grandmother's Garden [William Shakespeare - by William Ordway Partridge]







    William Shakespeare..
    by William Ordway Partridge [1861-1930]
    Installed: 1894
    Location: Lincoln Park: Grandmother's Garden..
    On the base is inscribed Shakespeare's words from Hamlet..
    What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!
    On the opposite side is Samuel T. Coleridge's words..
    he was not for an age but for all time, our myriad- minded Shakespeare....
    The book A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture.. by Ira J. Bach and Mary Lackritz Gray, has some interesting information on this sculpture. An excerpt..
    The statue is said to be the first in which Shakespeare is correctly clothed in attire he would have worn..
    Also from the book..
    Funds for the bronze statue was provided by Chicago financier Samuel Johnson, who made a forture in real estate and as a director of Chicago City Railroad Company and died in 1886..









    A marker in the Grandmother's Garden ..
    In 1893, when a William Shakespeare Monument was bequeathed to Lincoln Park by Samuel Johnson, director of the Chicago Railroad Company, the Old English Garden was considered a fitting site. A competition to design the monument was won by sculptor William Ordway Partridge, who had studied hundreds of portraits and busts of the Bard of Avon.

    REALTED LINKS:
    # Lincoln Park: Grandmother's Garden..

    Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    Lincoln Park: Formal Garden [Schiller Monument - by Ernst Rau]






    Johanne Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - by Ernst Rau 

    Installed: 1886

    Location: Lincoln Park - The Great Garden
    Southern end of the Conservatory Garden
    East of Stockton Dr at Webster Avenue

    Gift to the City by the Chicago's German-American community.



    Lincoln Park Conservatory and Formal Garden



    Lincoln Park Conservatory ...
    Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee ..
    in collaboration with architect M.E. Bell ..
    * Silsbee also designed the nearby Carlson Cottage # .. click here ..

    Completed: The conservatory was constructed in phases between 1890 and 1895 .. It replaced a small greenhouse that dated from the 1870s.
    The conservatory has four display houses: the Palm House, Fern Room, Orchid House and Show House [home to the annual flower shows]..



    Lincoln Park [Benjamin Franklin Monument - by Richard Henry Park]





     
    Benjamin Franklin Monument ..
    Sculptor: Richard Henry Park.
    He made the sculpture for the 1893 World's Fair.
    Installed in Lincoln Park: 1896..
    Relocated: 1966

    From the Chicago Park District website.. click here..
    The monument was originally located on the east side of the Lincoln Park Zoo near the South Lagoon. In 1966, the Chicago Park District moved the bronze sculpture and its white granite base to accommodate an expansion of the zoo. The existing location is the center of a circular lawn—the previous site of an early electric fountain
     
     
     
     

    From the Chicago Park District website.. click here..

    American founding father Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was a writer, philosopher, inventor, ambassador, politician, and scientist who is best remembered for his famous kite-flying experiment which proved that electricity could be harnessed from lighting. He also made significant contributions to American journalism. In addition to improving the printing press, he was an accomplished author, newspaper editor, and printer.

    Recognizing all of Benjamin Franklin’s contributions, Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune wrote "I have deemed it a personal duty to keep his memory fresh in the minds of Chicago’s youth." Along with the Old Time Printers Association, Medill hired sculptor Richard Henry Park (1832–1902) to create the Benjamin Franklin Monument. Park came to Chicago from New York to participate in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. As part of the fair’s Montana Mining exhibit, he sculpted a solid silver statue. Among his extant sculptures is the Drake Fountain now located near 92nd Street and Exchange Avenue on Chicago’s South Side.

    For the Benjamin Franklin Monument, Medill wanted "as faithful a reproduction of the features and form of this great American as the best talent can make." Park complied by creating this nine-foot-six-inch tall bronze standing figure of Franklin depicted in Colonial style breeches, waistcoat and knee-length coat.




    Lincoln Park [Hans Cristian Andersen Monument - by John Gelert]







    Hans Cristian Andersen Monument 

    by Johan Gelert

    Installed: 1896

    Location: Lincoln Park / East of Stockton Drive

    Gift to the City by Chicago's Danish-American community



    Lincoln Park [LaSalle Monument - by Count Jacques de La Laing]






    LaSalle Monument - by Count Jacques de La Laing

    Installed: 1889

    Location: 2045 N. Lincoln Park West

    The statue is donated by Lambert Tree


    Sunday, July 12, 2009

    Streeterville: Nicholas J Melas Centennial Plaza and Fountain

    
    
    Nicholas J Melas  Centennial Plaza and Fountain
    

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    Nicholas J Melas Centennial Plaza and Fountain ..
    Location: Chicago River Esplanade in the north bank of Chicago River ..

    The Nicholas J. Melas Centennial Fountain was built in 1989 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. It is is located at McClurg Court and the Chicago River












    The Water Arc Every hour on the hour, from 10:00 to 14:00 and again from 17:00 to midnight, the esplanade's Centennial Fountain shoots a massive arc of water across the river for 10 minutes. The entire exercise is meant to commemorate the labor-intensive reversal of the Chicago River in 1900, which tidily began sending all of the city's wastes downriver rather than into the lake.

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

    AIC: Untitled, 2005 [By Cy Twombly]

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    Untitled [2005]..
    By - Cy Twombly
    Temporary Exhibit - Not on display

    In his sculptures, Cy Twombly plies the diverse but confluent materials of found-object assemblage, plaster, paint, poetry, as well as traditional bronze casting. His constructions are simultaneously literal and abstract, material and metaphorical, difficult and affective...

    Kate Nesin, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, explored how Twombly has pursued a rich sculptural practice for decades alongside his better-known painting production.

    AIC: Clothespin [By Claes Oldenburg]







    Clothespin..
    By Claes Oldenburg..
    1975 / Cor-ten and stainless steel..