AIC: Reinstallation of The American Windows [By Marc Chagall]

Left panels [music and painting]..

Center panels [literature and architecture]..

Right panels [theater and dance]..

Art Institute of Chicago [AIC]..
Reinstallation of The America Windows,
Originally created: 1975-77..
By Marc Chagall..
Commemorating the American Bicentennial in memory of Mayor Richard J. Daley..
Originally installed: May 15, 1977...
Reinstalled: Nov 1, 2010..

The marker reads..
At the end of World War - II, Marc Chagall sought new avenues for artistic experimentation and turned to the medium of stained glass, which allowed him to explore color on a monumental scale. Working with master stained glass maker Charles Marq, he executed 86 windows across Europe, Israel and the US. American Windows present an unusual secular theme in his oeuvre, merging symbols of American history, the Chicago skyline and the arts; reading from left to right, the panels represent music, painting, literature, architecture, theater and dance.

Details: Left panels [music and painting]..

Details: Left panels [music and painting]..

Details: Left panels [music and painting]

Details: Center panels [literature and architecture]..

Details: Center panels [literature and architecture]..

Details: Right panels [theater and dance]..

Details: Right panels [theater and dance]..

Details: Right panels [theater and dance]..

Chagall dedicated his work to Mayor Richard J. Daley, a great supporter of public art projects in the city, with whom he had worked in the city on The Four Seasons mosaic at Chase Tower Plaza [image below]..



For more.. click on the link..
Mosaic "Four Seasons" - by Marc Chagall.. at Exelon Plaza / Chase Tower Plaza..

Excerpt from the AIC website....
While members and visitors have loved America Windows for years, many may not realize how deeply their history is interwoven with the history of Chicago and its rich tradition of public art. The story begins in the early 1970s, when Chagall came to the city for work related to his mosaic installed outside Chase Tower, The Four Seasons. In response to the city’s enthusiasm for his work and the Art Institute’s great support, the artist offered to create a set of stained-glass windows for the museum. Over the course of three years, plans were clarified, and in the end, Chagall determined that the windows would commemorate America’s bicentennial. The resulting six-panel work celebrates the country as a place of cultural and religious freedom, detailing the arts of music, painting, literature, theater, and dance. Because of his admiration for Chicago and its strong commitment to public art during the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall chose to dedicate the work to Mayor Richard J. Daley, a great supporter of public art projects. The windows were presented with much fanfare at a formal unveiling, hosted by the Auxiliary Board of the Art Institute, on May 15, 1977...

The marker reads,
The roots of Marc Chagall's America Windows could rightly be traced to 1967 - the year Pablo Picasso's monumental sculpture in Chicago's civic center [now called the Richard J. Daley Center] was unveiled. Insightfully, Mayor Richard J. Daley dedicated the sculpture with the owrds, "What is strange to us today will be familiar tomorrow." Today Chicago's great collection of public art is one of the defining characteristics of the city...
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Chicago West / Dominican University / Meridian VIII - by Ed McCullough

Meridian VIII with the sculptor Ed McCullough

Meridian VIII - by Ed McCullough

Installed: 2006

Commissioned by Dominican University, River Forest, IL

Chicago South - Washington Park / Fountain of Time - by Lorado Taft

Fountain of Time - by Lorado Taft

Fountain of Time - by Lorado Taft

Reflecting pool: Howard Van Doren Shaw

Completed: 1922

Description: approx. 127 feet length 

Made with hollow-cast concrete, reinforced with steel and incorporated pebbles from the Potomac River. This composite material was an innovation at the time .

Location: Western edge of the Midway Plaisance in the Washington Park 

Washington Park is registered in the National Register of Historic Places, and this sculpture is a contributing structure in this achievement.

Commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorate the first 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain, resulting from the Treaty of Ghent in 1814.

Inspired by Henry Austin Dobson's poem, "Paradox of Time" ..

"Time goes, you say?

Ah no, Alas, time stays, we go"..

Chicago West / UIC Campus / Allele (1997) - by William Carlson

Allele - by William Carlson

Allele - by William Carlson

 

Installed: 1997

Location: The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

between UIC Department of Biochemistry and the College of Dentistry

Commissioned by the Illinois CDB Art-in-Architecture program.

 In fact, there are two large scale abstract sculptures, installed in 1997, 

both under the Art-in-Architecture program

Allele - by William Carlson

Symbiotic Parralex - by Terrence Karpowicz

 

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Chicago West / UIC Campus / Symbiotic Parralax (1997) - by Terrence Karpowicz

Symbiotic Parralax - by terrence Karpowicz

Symbiotic Parralax - Terrence Karpowicz

Installed: 1997 

Steel /  21'H X 12'W X 12'D 

Location: The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

In front of Molecular Biology Bldg. 

Commissioned by the Illinois CDB Art-in-Architecture program.

Chicago South - Bronzeville / IIT Campus / Concurrence - by Terrence Karpowicz

Concurrence - by Terrence Karpowicz

Concurrence - by Terrence Karpowitz

Dimension: 23' x 16' x 8'..

Location: Paul V. Galvin Library 

at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

This was selected from a Navy Pier exhibition, "Pier Walk", 

in 1999 by a group of IIT professors, administrators and student

Chicago South / University of Chicago / Construction in Space and in the Third and Fourth Dimensions - by Antoine Pevsner

Construction in Space.....  - by Antoine Pevsner

Construction in Space and in the Third and Fourth Dimensions

By Antoine Pevsner  

Sculpted in 1959 by Russian Constructivist artist Antoine Pevsner,

the piece was installed at the Law School in 1964

Reflective Pool was designed by Dan Kiley

Location: University of Chicago Law School

Laird Bell Quadrangle /1111 E. 60th Street

Gift of Alex Hillman

The Law School building designed by Eero Saarinen. The building architect Eero Saarinen had suggested that the work of Antoine Pevsner would complement the quadrangle. But his wish coudnt be fulfilled until both Saarinen and Pevsner died (in 1961 and 1962 respectively).  The suclpture was gifted to the university by an alumnus Alex Hillman in 1963 and installed in 1964.

Chicago South / University of Chicago / Nuclear Energy, The site of world's First Nuclear Reactor - by Henry Moore

Nuclear Energy - by Henry Moore

Nuclear Energy, site of world's first nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1)

Sculptor: Henry Moore 

Dedicated: 1967

Location: The campus of the University of Chicago,

on Ellis Avenue, between the Max Palevsky West dormitory and the Regenstein Library

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorates the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. It was erected for and dedicated at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the splitting of the atom on the grounds by Enrico Fermi in December 2, 1942. The location commemorates the exact location where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor to produce the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. It was dedicated at precisely 3:36 p.m. on December 2, 1967 

The site was ...

Designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1965 

Designated a Chicago Landmark in 1971 

Chicago South / University of Chicago / Dialogo - by Virginio Ferrari

Dialogo - by Virginio Ferrari

Completed: 1971

Description: Bronze and limestone, 457.2 x 426.8 x 426.8 cm

Location: Albert Pick Hall for International Studies, 

 University of Chicago, Illinois, 1971.

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pick Jr. and the Polk Brothers Family.

Chicago South / University of Chicago Campus / Diarchy - by Kenneth Armitage

Diarchy..

By Kenneth Armitage..

Location: University of Chicago Law School,

Laird Bell Quadrangle, 1111 E 60th Street..

Chicago South - Bronzeville / IIT campus / Man on A Bench (1986) - by George Segal

Man on Bench - by George Segal

Man on A Bench  - by George Segal

1986

Male figure cast in bronze and sealed with white acrylic resin.

Location: IIT campus - Green Park Bench

 west of Perlstein Hall and north of Wishnick Hall.

This is the first piece of public sculpture displayed outdoors of the IIT campus..

To commemorate the Centennial of Mies van der Rohe’s birth

Made possible with grant from B.F.Ferguson Memorial Fund, additional funding from Daniel J. Terra, founder of Terra Museum of American Art and Victor J. Axelrod, president of Banner Construction Company.

IIT Campus: Crown Hall [Mies van der Rohe - by Hugo Weber]

Mies van der Rohe..
By Hugo Weber
1961
Location: Crown Hall, IIT Campus..
Presented to the Departmentment of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology
by the
Graham Foundation, for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts..

CSI Temporary Outdoor Exhibit at IIT - InvIITational

David Noguchi - Luminiscence..
[Luminescence - That's what my name Jyoti means, in my mother tongue Hindi..]


Ron Gard - Night in Tunisia..


Brian Monaghan - Untitled..


Ray Katz - Winter Moon..


Terrence Karpowicz - Maintaining Union..


Mike Brown - Deconstruct-Reconstruct..


Mike Baur - Immigrant..


Jason Verbeek - Three Bars..


Darrin Hallowell - Open Vessel..

CSI Temporary Exhibit at IIT: InvIITational..
Nine sculptors have their work at display at IIT..
CSI = Chicago Sculpture International..
IIT = Illinois Institute of Technology..

And here is link yo my FB Album..
CSI's IIT Outdoot Exhibit: InvIITational..

IIT Campus [Abraham Lincoln - by Gutzon Borglum]

Abraham Lincoln - by Gutzon Borglum 

Location: IIT campus

This bronze replica of the marble head of Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. was presented to Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) by Philip D. Sang and Elsie O. Sang, River Forest, Illinois, 1970.

Chicago - West / UIC Campus / Slabs of the Sunburnt West - by Richard Hunt

Slabs of Sunburst West - by Richard Hunt

Slabs of the Sunburnt West - by  Richard Hunt

1975 / welded bronze

30 foot X 30 foot, with protruding form 3 to 9 foot high.

Location: University of Illinois Chicago campus

801 S Morgan

Commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund..

as a memorial to Illinois poet and historian Carl Sandburg [[1878-1967]..

Chicago - Near West Side / Rora - by Ginny Sykes

Rora - by Ginny Sykes

Rora at Erie Terraces

By Ginny Sykes

Description: Glass mosaic

Dedicated: June 4, 1999

"Rora" was commissioned by the City of Chicago’s Percent for Art Program to express historical, geographic and cultural ideas about the Chicago River. In collaboration with the Chicago Department of Transportation, Department of Cultural Affairs, Wolff Clements and Associates, and Chicago Public Art Group, Rora at Erie Terraces won an honor award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999.

Chicago North / DeVry Instituite of Techniology / DeVry Binary Project - Collaborative sculpture

DeVry Binary Project, 2000

By Gallery 37 apprentices, with guidance from

Lead Artists Nicole Beck and Jim Brenner

Location: DeVry Instituite of Techniology in Chicago..

Binary Project 2000, shows the multiple aspects of technology and it's impact upon our lives and culture. The artwork represents a random binary code format [zeros and ones] stratified to configure larger zeros and ones from a distance.

Preston Jackson, working on his sculpture, "Cakewalkers"

Notice the gown of the dancing girl.. The mould for the gown, is made from antelope horns, that he found in Nigeria..

The making of a sculpture is as fascinating as the final product. I wish I am able to follow through the progress of this piece. Keeping fingers crossed.. It will ultimately be cast in bronze..



Jason Hawk and Eric Gushee getting on-hand experience from a maestro-at-work, as Preston Jackson is working on his sculpture, "Cakewalkers"..

Sculptors of tomorrow - Students at School of the Art Institute of Chicago [SAIC]

Brittanie Wine, practising figure sculpture after 5 years..

Here are some sculpture students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago [SAIC]. All of images shown here are of students of Preston Jackson...


Jason Hawk, working on a commission [candle stands for a church]


Jonathan Sun..


Justin


Benjamin McCarthy..


Eric Gushee


Juarez..



A scene from the classroom..


Jason Hawk [having lunch] and Eric Gushee [sipping coffee], with Preston Jackson working..



In the classroom I saw this book.. Another reason why I enjoy Figure Sculptures. It involoves all these studies of human body..