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. ...
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