Chicago South / Chicago State University / I have A Dream (1978) - by Abbott Pattison

I have A Dream - by Abbott Pattison

1978

Location: Chicago State University

B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund

B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund

Public Art is free for all to enjoy..
But it doesn't come for free..
There's a [usually huge] price-tag attached, and someone picks up the tab.. I have previously talked about funding of Public Art in Chicago.. And post is specifically on the sculptures funded by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund..

When Benjamin Franklin Ferguson died in 1905, through his will, he left $1 million of charitable trust fund to the Art Institute of Chicago, to be known as the B. F. Ferguson Fund .. This fund was to be..
"entirely and exclusively expended by it under the direction of its Board of Trustees in the erection and maintenance of enduring statuary and monuments, in the whole or in part of stone, granite or bronze, in the parks, along the boulevards or in other public places, within the city of Chicago, Illinois, commemorating worthy men or women of America or important events of American history. The plans or designs for such statuary or monuments and the location of the same shall be determined by the Board of Trustees of such Institute."

Chicago South / Prairie Avenue - Chicago Women's Park and Gardens / Helping Hands, Memorial to Jane Addams - by Louis Bourgeois

Helping Hands - by Louis Bourgeois

Helping Hands, A Memorial to Jane Addams

- by Louis Bourgeois

Location: Chicago Women's Park and Gardens, Prairie Avenue..

The sculpture pays homage to Jane Addams [1860 – 1935], 

Chicago’s famous social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Fund of the Art Institute of Chicago; 

established to honor great figures or evens in American history.

For more on B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund, click here ...

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 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 - 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.

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 West - Logan Square / Illinois Centennial Monument

Illinois Centennial Monument




The Illinois Centennial Monument

Relief by Evelyn Beatrice Longman

Design by Henry Bacon

1918

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

to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Illinois Statehood

The eagle, is in reference to the state flag. Reliefs surrounding the base depict figures of Native Americans, explorers, farmers and laborers intended to show the great changes experienced during the state's first century.

Chicago West / Jacques Marquette Memorial (1926) - by Hermon Atkins MacNeil

Jacques Marquette Memorial

Jacques Marquette Memorial

By Hermon Atkins MacNeil

1926

Location: Intersection of Marshall Bouleward and 24th Street

Chicago, IL

Funded by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund

The words etched are..

This memorial erected by the trustees of the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund to commemorate the discoveries and sacrifieces of the missionary Pere Marquette.

Dedicated MCMXXVI

Chicago South - Jackson Park / Statue of The Republic - by Daniel Chester French

Statue of the Reppublic

Statue of The Republic 

Sculptor: Daniel Chester French

Architect: Henry Bacon

Year Built: 1918

Description: 24-foot-high gilded bronze..

Location: Jackson Park.

at the intersection of Hayes & Richards Drives.

Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: June 4, 2003.

Commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago and the Illinois statehood centennial..

Chicago - Grant Park /Theodore Thomas Memorial / The Spirit of Music Statue - by Albin Polasek

The Spirit of Music - by Albin Polasek

Theodore Thomas Memorial / The Spirit of Music Statue 

Sculptor: Albin Polasek 

Architect: Howard Van Doren Shaw

Completed: 1923

Location: Chicago’s Grant Park 

on the corner of Balbo and South Michigan Avenue, 

near the Hilton Hotel

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund, 

as a memorial to Theodore Thomas [1835-1905], 

the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)

Chicago - AIC / Noguchi Fountain (1976) - by Isamu Noguchi

Noguchi Fountain - by Isamu Noguchi

 

Noguchi Fountain - by Isamu Noguchi

1976 

Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic

Granite and stainless steel, L 50 ft. 

Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, 

east façade Columbus Dr. between Monroe St. and Jackson Blvd.

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund 

Chicago - AIC / McKinlock Court / The Fountain of the Tritons - by Carl Milles

Fountain of the Tritons - by Carl Milles

 

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The Art Institute of Chicago

McKinlock Court & the Fountain of the Tritons

McKinlock Court

It's a 11,640 square foot outdoor court at the Art Institute of Chicago.  The centerpiece of this court is "Fountain of the Tritons" by Carl Milles. The court has beautiful Dutch Elm trees. The McKinlock Court is attached to the Garden Cafe of the AIC.

McKinlock Court was landscaped in 1924. By 1931 the court was remodeled so the Fountain of the Tritons could be installed. This court is open for dining during the summer months.

Fountain of the Tritons - by Carl Milles

Sponsored by the B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorate John Ericsson and other Swedish Americans. Ericsson created the "Monitor", the first iron-clad turret ship, which did battle with the Merrimack in the Civil War.

Chicago - AIC / South Garden / Fountain of the Great Lakes - by Lorado Taft

Fountain of the Great Lakes - by Lorado Taft

Fountain of the Great Lakes

Sculptor: Lorado Taft

Bronze work created between 1907-1913

Location: South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago

First monument commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund,

 as a memorial to B.F.Ferguson.

Fountain of the Great Lakes is an allegorical sculpture by Lorado Taft. As the name suggests, this fountain represents the five great lakes. The five women are so arranged that the water flows through them in the same way water passes through the Great Lakes. 'Superior' is on the top and 'Michigan' on the side both empty into the basin of 'Huron' who sends the stream to 'Erie' whereas 'Ontario' receives the water and gazes off as it flows into the ocean.

Chicago North / Lincoln Park Zoo / Eugene Field Memorial ... aka Dream Lady - by Edward Francis McCartan

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"...

Chicago - Museum Campus / Adler Planetarium / Sundial "Man Enters the Cosmos" - by Henry Moore

Sundial "Man Enters Cosmos" - by Henry Moore

Sundial "Man Enters the Cosmos"

Sculptor: Sir Henry Moore 

Installed: 1980

Description: Bronze, H 13 ft.

Location: Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, 

Entry Plaza Solidarity (Achsah Bond) Dr., Museum Campus 

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus

Chicago - Grant Park / The Bowman and The Spearman by Ivan Mestrovic

Bowman - by Ivan Mestrovic

The Bowman and The Spearman

Sculptor: Ivan Mestrovic

Installed: 1928

Description: Bronze figures /  H 17 ft. (each)

Location: Congress Plaza Gardens 

S. Michigan Ave. (100 E) & E. Congress Pkwy. (500 S) 

Chicago, IL 60604

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund, 

to commemorate Native Americans.