Chicago - Grant Park / Figure Fountains: Crane Girl, Fisher Boy, Dove Girl and Turtle Boy - by Leonard Crunelle

Dove Girl

Four Figure Fountains: 

Dove Girl, Turtle Boy, Crane Girl, Fisher Boy 

- by Leonard Crunelle

On the north and south of the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain are the rose gardens. These rose gardens have four circular fountains with bronze figures installed in the center of each

The South Rose Garden has Dove Girl and Turtle Boy 

The North Rose Garden has Crane Girl and Fisher Boy

Location: Grant Park Rose Gardens
East of S. Columbus Dr. (301 E) north and south of E. Congress Pkwy. (500 S)
Chicago, IL 60605

Grant Park - South President's Court [Artists And Automobiles - Various Artists]

Artists And Automobiles
A series of sculptures by 5 Chicago artists...Mary Brogger, Ted Garner, Dessa Kirk, John Mason and Lucy Slivinski.
Location: South President's Court in Grant Park, located at Columbus Drive and Congress Avenue across from Buckingham Fountain ...

"Artists and Automobiles" was organized by the Public Art Program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. It was presented by Allstate, in celebration of its 75th anniversary, and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs ...

The artists were allowed to select automobile parts at Tech-Cor, [Allstate's state-of-the-art research and training facility in Wheeling, Ill.]..which was delivered to their respective studios. The artists used the discarded car parts like windshields, tailpipes, mufflers, sidewalls, springs and bumpers, and made them into pieces of art, like..
- Lilies [by Dessa Kirk],
- Glass Bench [by Ted Garner],
- Hedgerow [by Lucy Slivinski],
- Arise 2 [by John Mason] ...


Arise 2 : by John Mason...
made by metal quarter panels ...




Lilies - by Dessa Kirk ...
made by doors, hood, trunk and roof from five separate cars ..


Glass Bench - by Ted Garner ...
made from front and rear car windows, and the sides of a mini-van ...


Hedgerow - by Lucy Slivinski ...
made from car mufflers, metal bumpers, springs, tailpipes, headlights, taillights and rotors ...

# I did not see the art work of Mary Brogger is in the garden ... I am not too sure if it's on display ir not. However an exceptional piece of sculpture by Mary Brogger, the "Heymarket Memorial .. click here ... can be found in the Near North District on the DesPlaines Street between Lake and Randolph streets ...

# More sculptures made with automobile parts:
A lifesize sculpture named the "Moose" by John Kearney is on display at 401 N Michigan Avenue ... in the Pioneer Court .. click here ...

# Another sculpture using automobile parts by John Kearney, named the "Tin Park" can be found in the Oz Park .. click here ...

For more on Grant Park ..
# Public Art in the Grant Park .. click here ....
# Gardens in the Grant Park .. click here ..
# Often overlooked but remarkable features like pedestrian crossings, the railway lines underneath, the street lamp posts, balustrade, corbels, the Y-symbols .. click here ..
# For a brief history of Grant Park .. click here ..

Chicago - Grant Park / Magdalene - by Dessa Kirk

Magdalene - by Dessa Kirk

Magdalene - by  Dessa Kirk

Installed: 2005

Location: Congress Triangle Garden 

Congress Parkway, Grant Park

Dessa Kirk created the Magdalene sculpture specifically for its Congress Parkway site. In the summertime, the sculpture becomes part of the surrounding garden with vines and flowers that fill up the skirt of her dress.

Chicago - Grant Park / Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain

Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain

Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain 

Completed: 1927 

Architect: Edward Bennett designed the fountain 

in conjunction with French sculptor Marcel Loyau and 

engineer, Jacques H. Lambert

Location: Columbus Dr. (301 E.) & Congress Pkwy. (500 S.)

Chicago, IL 60605 

Kate Sturges Buckingham, philanthropist and art patron 

donated one million dollars for the fountain 

which was dedicated to the memory of her brother, Clarence Buckingham

Chicago - Museum Campus / Balbo Monument

Balbo Monument

Balbo was a fascist and the monument was a gift from Mussolini to the people of Chicago for their generosity in naming a street in honor of Balbo after the 1933 worlds fair held at Chicago.

Non Identical twins of Grant Park

 

 

Small little things can amuse me! Yesterday, working on the Eagles photos in Grant Park, I realized that the two eagles on the north and south of the Congress Plaza in Grant Park are not identical [somehow I had always assumed they were!].  This provided an incentive for a small quick post..

 

The non-identical twins of Grant Park!

 

The Bowman and Spearman - by  Ivan Mestrovic

The Eagle Fountains - by Frederick C. Hibbard

The Lions - by Edward Kemeys

Chicago Loop / Van Buren Street Station - Metra

Van Buren Street Station

Van Buren Street Station - Metra

Entrance to the Van Buren Street station on Michigan Avenue at the southwest corner with Van Buren Street in Chicago. The entrance was given to Chicago as a gift by the city of Paris in 2001. It is a replica of an Hector Guimard-designed, art nouveau-style Paris subway entrance.

Chicago - Grant Park / Cancer Survivors Garden

Cancer Survivors Garden



Cancer Survivors Garden

After Richard A. Bloch, co-founder of H & R Block, Inc. survived what he had been told was "terminal" lung cancer, he established a foundation to help others fight and recover from cancer. The foundation has given gifts to create Cancer Survivor's parks and gardens throughout the nation. When the foundation offered such a gift to the Chicago Park District in the 1990s, designers Miriam Gusevitch, Julie Gross, and Dan Purciarello developed a scheme specifically for its site on the northeast side of Grant Park.

Location: Randolph St. & Harbor Dr.,Chicago, IL 60601

Loop [Bronze Cow

Cow
Bronze sculpture
57 inches high, 92 inches long ...
Location: The entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center [Washington and Michigan Ave].

The plaque reads ....
" In 1999 a heard of fiberglass cows united citizens, visitors, artists, businesses through a unique community based public art event. The bronze cow is a gift to all Chicagoans in gratitude for the support of the cows and other art in public places.
A gift to the city of Chicago from the Hanig family and anonymous donors.
November, 2001.
Bronze Cow cast at Wagner Foundary, Inc., Chicago, IL. "

In 1999, a herd of fiberglass cows united citizens, visitors, artists and businesses through a unique community-basesd public art project. Chicago's 1999 summer public art display was originally conceived and presented in Zurich, Switzerland in 1998. Chicago bussinessman Peter Hanig saw the cows in Zurich and brought the idea home. he convinced the City of Chicago to bring in cows from the Swiss artists who had created the Zurich cows. The city purchased unadorned cows and held a contest for local artists to produce designs to decorate them. A local business could opt to sponser an artist designed cow or to purchase a blank cow for its own design.

The commemorative bronze cow located in front of the Chicago Cultural Center, was a gift of the Hanig family and anonymous donors to the people of Chicago in gratitude for their support of the cows and other public art projects.

Depicted as reflections in the eyes of the cow are two famous Chicago landmarks, the “Chicago Picasso” sculpture and the Historic Water Tower.

Above image: Eye depict reflection of Historic Water Tower ..

Above image: Eye depict reflection of "Chicago Picasso" sculpture ..

Chicago Loop / The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus - by Roger Brown

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The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus ... by Roger Brown.

It's at the entrance of 120 N LaSalle Building ... in the Loop, Chicago.

Roger Brown is a prominent Chicago artist ... famous for Chicago Imagist Movement, from the '70s through the early '90s .. Brown peppered the city with paintings that fuse pop culture themes with a folk-meets-cartooning aesthetic.

One of his best ventures graces the entry way to the 120 N. LaSalle building just west of city hall. The mosaic, illustrates the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus, in which Icarus' father, Daedalus, warns him to not fly too close to the sun. Icarus does, of course, his wings melting as he falls. The sight of two toga-wearing and winged men is silly and serious. It's a tale about greed in Chicago's corporate epicenter ......

For more on Roger Brown, click here..