Public Art in Chicago
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Northwestern University - Block Museum Campus Art Walk
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The Young Lincoln - by Charles Keck
1945
Bronze / 13-foot tall
Location: Senn (Nicholas) Park /
Triangular corner between N. Ridge Ave., N Clark Street and W. Thorndale Ave.
The Chicago Park District website informs... Keck's family donated the Young Lincoln to the G.A.R. collection of Chicago Public Library, which is now the Chicago Cultural Center. In 1997, the Chicago Public Library loaned the monument to the Chicago Park District to allow its installation in Senn Park on the city's North Side.
The Chicago Lincoln - by Avard Fairbanks
1956 / Bronze
Location: Lincoln Square / Lawrence and Western Avenue
Monument was erected by the Illinois Lincoln Memorial Committee
Phoenix Rising - by Lucy Slivinski
2018
Intersection of Sheridan Road, Broadway, and Montrose Avenue
50 x 50 Neighborhood Arts Project
Ward 46 / Alderman James Cappleman
Phoenix Rising is a symbol of rebirth. Using recycled materials, Slivinski gathered scrap materials from a nearby Chicago Transit Authority Red Line improvements project site. To contribute to the work, Alderman Cappleman’s office organized Uptown neighbors to donate bicycles, pipes, and other scrap metal. The artwork stands as a welcoming beacon and marks the entry to Uptown at its southern boundary.
Ashland - by Erik Peterson
2017
Thorndale Avenue, between Sheridan Road and Lane Beach
Commission by the 50 x 50 Neighborhood Arts Project
Ward 48 / Alderman Harry Osterman
Ashland is a both a sculpture and a utilitarian piece of urban furniture installed within a median at the eastern end of Thorndale Avenue, where the city meets the lake. It was constructed from the wood of blighted ash trees affected by the emerald ash borer and removed from Rutherford Sayre Park on Chicago’s northwest side. It allows people to sit, relax and contemplate, taking in the view of the water and park.
Silver Oak - by Barry Tinsley
1983
Stainless Steel / 17.6' H x 43' W x 24' D
Location: Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Commissioned by the Illinois CDB Art in Architecture program.
Serenity - by Ruth Duckworth
2005
Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU),
5500 N. St. Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625
Commissioned by the Illinois CDB Art in Architecture program.
The sculpture was installed when the artist was 96 years old. "Duckworth's sculptures have smooth and elongated silhouettes with slight details to insinuate the face and limbs."
Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009)
She was born in Hamburg, Germany. She fled her German homeland to escape Nazi oppressions. She studied art in England. She came to Chicago in 1964 to teach at the University of Chicago and remained in the city after retiring from the university in 1977.
Duckworth died in Chicago at the age of 90 on October 19, 2009. She spent 45 years of her life in Chicago. In two consecutive years Chicago lost two of the early modernist women sculptors. Geraldine McCullough passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. Ruth Duckworth passed away in 2009 at the age of 90.
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
Jetty - by Barry Tinsley
1980 / Cor-Ten steel / H 48 ft. x W 12 ft. x D 15 ft.
Location: 24th District Police Station
6464 N. Clark St., Chicago
City of Chicago Percent for Art program
Barry Tinsley’s Jetty is made from plates of Cor-Ten steel welded into a variety of volumetric forms that are fastened together by welding and brackets. It was assembled on-site at the Rogers Park District Police Station and dedicated in January 1980. Because of the intense urban nature of the site, Tinsley designed an innovative, non-objective work, oriented close to the ground to give its viewers a sense of visual order and their own human scale.
Source: City of Chicago Public Art website
Photos taken: October 8, 2019
Stepped Arch - by Linda Howard
1982
Aluminum / H 197 in. x W 89 in. x D 72 in
Location: Chicago Fire Station 108
4625 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Commissioned by the City of Chicago Percent for Art program.
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| From the Tropics, with Love From the Tropics, with Love - by Pedro y Juana Location: Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) 220 E Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 Mexico based architecture firm Pedro y Juana created the site-specific installation for the Commons, at MCA. From the Tropics with Love installation includes an urban garden consisting of 221 planters and lamps, hardy indoor plants, a collapsible stage, and a suit of multifunctional furniture that can be dismantled and stored on the wall. The Commons - An area located on the Second Floor at MC It places artistic and civic exchange at the heart of the museum. Everything that happens within this space is meant to encourage formal and inflrmal dialogue as well as interaction among artists, visitors and communities. |
Charger I and II - by Ted Gall
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Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park (Section II)
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
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| The Gold Coast - by Bernard Rosenthal |
