Portrait with the First Cultural Historian of Chicago - Tim Samuelson

 

First Cultural Historian of Chicago - Tim Samuelson

Temporary Exhibition: 

"The Pride & Perils of Chicago's Public Art"

Jan 2017 - July 2017

Location: Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Photo credit: Lynn Becker

Portrait with Sculptor - Chakaia Booker

 

Temporary Exhibition:

"Seven Sculptures by Chakaia Booker"

April, 2016 - April, 2018

Location: Boeing Galleries, Millennium Park , Chicago

Chicago Near North Side / The Gentlemen Statues - by Ju Ming

The Gentlemen Statues  - by Ju Ming



The Gentlemen Statues - by Ju Ming

The sculptures are work of renowned Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming.

The sculptures are part of Ju Ming's "Living World Series"

The statues were purchased by the Great Eagle Holdings,
the parent company of Langham Hospitality Group,
who then had them installed.

Location: AMA Plaza, near the IBM building,
which houses the Langham Hotel
330 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago

The sculpture features eleven bronze plated figures, wearing trench coats and holding umbrellas. The figures are minimalistic and blocky.

Portrait with Sculptor - Jaume Plensa

 

Temporary Exhibition:

"1004 Portraits - by Jaume Plensa"

June 2014 - December 2015

Location: Millennium Park, Chicago

Chicago Loop / Daley Plaza / Untitled (known as Chicago Picasso) - by Pablo Picasso..

Chicago Picasso - by Pablo Picasso

Untitled - Known as Chicago Picasso - by Pablo Picasso

Unveiled: 1967

Corten steel / 50 feet tall and weighs 162 tons

Location: Richard J. Daley Civic Center Plaza, 

50 W. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602

The architects of Richard Daley Center commissioned the sculpture. The architects chose Pablo Picasso, a renowned Spanish artist to create this sculpture.

Picasso refused the $100,000 payment offered to him, stating that he wanted to make the sculpture a Gift to the people of Chicago.  The marquette for the sculpture is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC).

The sculpture was made of Cor-Ten steel fabricated by the American Bridge Company in Gary, Indiana. The steel peices were rolled by USS Gary Works. the world's largest rolling mill of its kind at the time. The pieces were assembled, disassembled and then transported to Chicago for reconstruction. The sculpture was assembled on site in the Daley Plaza.

Chicago Loop / Miro's Chicago (1981) - by Joan Miro

Miro's Chicago - by Joan Miro

Miro's Chicago - by Joan Miro

Originally known as The Sun, The Moon and One Star

 Designed: 1963 / Unveiled: 1981

 Description: Steel, wire mesh, concrete, bronze and ceramic tile .. 

Height: 39 ft. 

Location: Brunswick Building Plaza.. 

Cook County Administration Building, 

69 W. Washington St., Chicago

Chicago Loop / The Flamingo - by Alexander Calder

The Flamingo - by Alexander Calder

Installed: 1974

53' high X 29' wide X 60' length

Location: Chicago Federal Plaza

Commissioned by the US GSA Art in Architecture program

This sculpture titled "Flamingo" is made by Alexander Calder, one of the most eminent sculptors of the 20th century American art.  "The sculpture was received in a public ceremony never before nor since equaled in scale nor in fanfare".

It's brilliant color and graceful curves are a great contrast to the three black and blocky buildings surrounding it. The Chicago Federal Center comprises of three buildings -The Everett McKinley Dirksen Building, the John C. Kluczynski Building, and the Loop Post Office.  All the three Federal buildings are designed by Mies Van Der Rohe  

Chicago: Stained Glass Windows

 

 

Curator Rolf Achilles at Macy's Pedway,

with American Victorian Stained Glass Window Installations

A PIONEERING EXHIBIT

 

 

For the entire post, .. click here..

Driehaus Museum [Louis Comfort Tiffany - expression of Beauty through stained glass]

One of the posts I absolutely enjoyed writing

is on Louis Comfort Tiffany
and the different types of glass he used to produce vibrant, dazzling pieces

 .. click here..

NOTE: All my new updates are on my Public Art website.. click here..

Navy Pier [Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows and Driehaus Gallery]



Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, Navy Pier, Chicago.


 
New updates on this blog have almost stopped
as all new updates have been on my new website with the same name
Public Art in Chicago.. click here..


A recent addition has been on
Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows at Navy Pier..and..
The Driehaus Gallery of Stained Glass Windows, Navy Pier.
I have been organizing the images in Photo Galleries..

Smith Museum: Photo Gallery I.. click here..
Smith Museum: Photo Gallery II.. click here..
Smith Museum: Photo Gallery III.. click here..
Smith Museum: Photo Gallery IV [Tiffany Galleries].. click here..
And
Driehaus Gallery.. click here..