Riverview - by Jerry Peart
Installed: 1980
Painted aluminum / H 17 ft.
Commissioned by the City of Chicago Percent for Art program.
The site of the North Side Police Center was formerly occupied by the historic Riverview Amusement Park, for which many Chicagoans share a fond nostalgia, and from which Jerry Peart derived the name of this sculpture. Riverview was fabricated from rolled aluminum plate that the artist cut and welded in his Chicago studio. Next, the sculpture was assembled on-site. The work, a vigorous combination of curvilinear forms, is painted with vivid enamel colors. Riverview’s bright colors and the open sweep of its circular arc are reminiscent of the carnival rides that preceded the sculpture.
Source: City of Chicago Public Art website
Photos taken on Nov 22, 2019
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