Museum Campus : Field Museum Plaza [What You See..]

What you see ...
Location: Field Museum lawn ...
The museum campus gives an incredible view of Chicago skyline ...
"What you see" is self-explanatory...



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 - Museum Campus / Monuments on the "Solidarity Drive"

Solidarity Drive ...
The road between the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium was named the "Solidarity Drive" in 1998 ... after reconstruction of 2,800 linear feet of shoreline. Improvements included the construction of step stone revetment.

The choice of name "Solidarity Drive" is in commemoration of Lech Walesa's ultimately successful movement to bring freedom to Poland named "Solidarity Movement". This road is lined with three statues...
# Nicolaus Copernicus
# Karel Havlicek
# Thaddeus Kosciuzsko
Point to note is that, Chicago has the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw ... And many times in history, Chicago's Polish polulation has outnumbered Polish population in Warsaw..

Chicago - Museum Campus / Gold Star Families Memorial and Park

Gold Star Families Memorial Park

The Gold Star Families Memorial and Park

Location: Burnham Park, along Lake Michigan on the east side of Soldier Field. It is nearly five acres extending from McFetridge Drive on the North to Waldron Drive on the South.

The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation ensured that the design of the park would be as exceptional as the men and women it honors.

Chicago - Museum Campus / Burnham Park / Soldier Field Children's Garden

Geography Earth at the Soldier Field Children's Garden

 

Soldier Field Children's Garden

Installed: 2002

Landscape Architect: Lindsay Schaudt

Location: Northeast of Soldier Field, South of McFetridge Drive

Temporary Exhibit / Museum Campus / Three forms for Chicago - by David Nash]

Spheres Turn, Pyramids Rise, Cubes Stay Still 

Three forms for Chicago 

Artist: David Nash 

Installed: 2000

Temporary Exhibit

Location: Museum Campus, northwest side near Lake Shoredrive 

Description:

Wood sphere: Diam 8ft

Pyramid: H 16ft x W 10ft

Cube: H 10ft x W 8ft

Chicago - Grant Park / Agora (2006) - by Magdalena Abakanowicz

Agora - by Magdalena Abakanowicz

Agora - by Magdalena Abakanowicz 

[Polish sculptor]

Unveiled: 2006

106 cast iron figures / H 9 ft. each / 

weighing eleven hundred pounds each, created in Poland 

Location: Grant Park, 

intersection of S. Michigan Ave. and Roosevelt Road, Chicago 

Agora is a Greek word for "meeting place" 

Chicago - Grant Park / Rosenberg Fountain (1893) - by Franz Machtl

Rosenberg Fountain - by Franz Machtl

Rosenberg Fountain

Sculptor: Franz Machtl [German sculptor]

Installed: 1893  / Restored in 2004 

Location: Grant Park 

intersection of Michigan Ave & E. 11th St. (1000 S), Chicago, IL 60605

It reads, “Presented by Joseph Rosenberg San Francisco, Cal.”

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Chicago Loop / Lines in Four Directions (1985) - by Sol LeWitt

Lines in Four Directions - by Sol LeWitt

Installed: 1985

Painted aluminum / 90 X 72 feet

Location: 10 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604

Funded by grant from the NEA's Art in Public Places program and publicly raised funds.

(NEA - National Endowment for the Arts)

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Chicago - Northerly Island / Daphne Garden - by Dessa Kirk

Daphne Garden - by Dessa Kirk

The Daphne Garden - by Dessa Kirk 

Location: Northerly Island 

These three figurative sculptures of Daphne are all made from scraps of discarded Cadillac cars. One the the themes of this Chicago based artist of Dessa Kirk, is to find hidden beauty in ugliness.

Chicago - Near North / Being Born - by Virginio Ferrari

Being Born - by Vierginio Ferrari

Being Born - by Virginio Ferrari

Installed: 1983

Stainless steel, granite, and water / 624.9 x 701 x 548.6 cm..

Location: Intersection of Ontario, Ohio, and Orleans Sts .

Located at the Ohio Street exit of the Kennedy Expressway

Donated to the people of Chicago by the Tooling and Manufacturing Association 

(Previously known as the Tool and Die Institute).

Initially located at the corner of State and Washington streets, Chicago, Illinois, 1983. Relocated in 1996, with the collaboration of Chicago Gateway Green, to the Donald J. DePorter Gateway, intersection of Ontario, Ohio, and Orleans streets, Chicago, Illinois.