Chicago South / NMSP / Hand Heart - by Jason Pickelman

Hand Heart - by Jason Pickelman

Hand Heart - by Jason Pickelman

2021

Fiberglass / 54 x 70 x 17 inches

Location: Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park (NMSP)

aka... the NATE

At Governors State University

ICON series:  Hand Heart is part of Jason Pickelman's "Icons" series. The Icons series explores universal qualities in enduring cultural symbology through works in painting and sculpture, including pieces as Hourglass and Hand Heart.

Chicago North / Northwestern University / Block Museum Campus Art Walk

Curved Form (1961) - Barbara Hepworth

 

Northwestern University - Block Museum Campus Art Walk

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Chicago South / Olive-Harvey College / Conveyor (2020) - by Barbara Cooper

 

Conveyor - by Barbara Cooper

2020

Wood -white oak veneer and perforated steel

122' x 5' x 7'

Location: Olive-Harvey College, Chicago

Commissioned by the Illinois CDB Art in Architecture program.

Chicago - Northwest Side / Oakton Community College / Silver Oak (1983) - by Barry Tinsley

 

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.

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

Chicago South / Chicago State University / Building and Growing (2012) - by Richard Hunt

 

Building and Growing - by Richard Hunt

2012

Welded stainless steel

Location: Chicago State University (CSU)

Commissioned by the Illinois CDB Art in Architecture program.

Chicago - Northwest Side / Northeastern Illinois University / Serenity (2005) - by Ruth Duckworth

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.

Chicago West / Elgin Community College / Temporal (2003) - by Mike Baur

Temporal with sculptor Mike Baur

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Temporal - by Mike Baur

2003

Corten Steel and concrete / 45' tall

Location: Elgin Community College, 

1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin, IL 601213

Commissioned by Illinois CDB Art in Architecture program.

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 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.

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.

Chicago South / NMSP / Paul (2006) - by Tony Tasset

Can you spot me in the image?

 

 Paul - by Tony Tasset

Installed: 2006

Pained fiberglass over steel frame

Location: the NATE / Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park (NMSP)

at Governors State University (GSU)

Commission by Illinois CDB Art in Architecture program.

Chicago South / NMSP / Sculpture Collection - I [North Trail]

The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park [NMSP] is spread over more than one hundred acres of prairie landscape on the Governors State University Campus. The collection was established in the late 1960s by Lewis Manilow, a developer who was committed to the economic, educational and cultural development of the south metropolitan region.

There are 26 large-scale sculptures on display. These are subdivided into North Trail and South Trail..I begin with the North trail..





Oscar's Inclination [2003]
Artist: Michael Dunbar (American, b. 1947)
Materials: welded and painted steel
Gift of Dr. Christopher Graf
The marker reads..
Dunbar's monumental sculptures’ titles are often tied to music from which he believes they receive their "... sense of implied animation." This work's title, Oscar's Inclination, reflects Dunbar's enthusiasm for jazz and particularly the music of the late, legendary, pianist Oscar Peterson...