Showing posts with label (4) NEA Art in Public Places program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label (4) NEA Art in Public Places program. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2023

Chicago - North / Untitled (Miss Nitro - 1973) - by Peter Voulkos

Untitled (1973) - by Peter Voulkos



 
Untitled - by Peter Voulkos

Also known as Miss Nitro

1973

Location: Highland Park, Laurel Park

Funded by grant from the NEA's Art in Public Places program and publicly raised funds.
(NEA - National Endowment for the Arts)


Saturday, September 11, 2010

Chicago North - Jonquil Park / Eagle Columns - by Richard Hunt


Eagle Columns with the sculptor Richard Hunt

Above Image: Eagle Columns with the sculptor Richard Hunt





Eagle Columns - by Richard Hunt 

1989

Location: Jonquil Park
in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of North Side Chicago, IL.

Funded by grant from NEA Art in Public Places program and public funds

The sculpture commemorates two Chicagoans of the 1890's
 - Illinois Governor John Peter Algert, who pardoned three anarchists convicted of violence during the Haymarket Square riots 1886, on the ground that the trial was unfair.
 - Poet Vachel Lindsay, who eulogized Algert in a paean titled, "The Eagle that is Forgotten".



Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chicago North / Lincoln Park / Curve XXII (1981) - by Ellsworth Kelly


Curve XXII - by Ellsworth Kelly





Curve XXII - by Ellsworth Kelly

Dedicated to the "I Will" spirit of Chicago

November 8, 1981

Location: Lincoln Park

Funded by grant from the NEA's Art in Public Places program and publicly raised funds.
(NEA - National Endowment for the Arts)

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Chicago Loop / Lines in Four Directions (1985) - by Sol LeWitt


Lines in Four Directions (1985) - by Sol LeWitt




Lines in Four Directions - by Sol LeWitt

Installed: 1985

Painted aluminum / 90 X 72 feet

Location: 10 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604

Funded by grant from the NEA's Art in Public Places program and publicly raised funds.
(NEA - National Endowment for the Arts)
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