Upwells - by Stephen Luecking
Installed: 1990
Granite and bronze / 40' high spire
Acquired: through John Needles Chester Fund and Illinois "Percent for Art" Program.
Location: Central plaza, south of Beckman Institute at UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
It illustrates the basic principles of astronomy that deal with the motion of the earth through the solar system.
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Sylvia Shaw Judson
Wikipedia informs.. click here.. Shaw was born in 1897 in Lake Forest, Illinois, near Chicago, the daughter of prominent Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. She attended the Westover School in Connecticut. In 1917, she married Clay Judson (1892–1960), a Chicago lawyer. She studied with Anna Hyatt Huntington and Albin Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago and went to Paris in 1920 to continue her studies under Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Judson was influenced by Chinese sculpture...
Some sculptures have interesting stories about them, and some of the most fascinating are Lost and Found stories! Chicago has a few of them.
Here are some stories: Chicago Rising from the Lake - by Milton Horn Fountain Girl - by George Wade Agriculture and Industry - Unknown sculptor
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Lead with the Heart - by Kara James
Carved: 2014
as part of Chicago Tree Project, to turn dead or dying trees that are infested with Emerald Ash Borer or other bugs and diseases into living public art.
A joint project of Chicago Sculpture International [CSI] and Chicago Park District [CPD]
Here are more, Chicago Tree Project.. click here.. . The official website.. click here..
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Fountain Girl - by George Wade
Originally created: 1893 [Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition].
Lost sometimes in the 1950s.
Recreated and reinstalled: 2013, after 50 years of going missing, recast from a copy of the original in Portland, Maine.
Location: Lincoln Park south of W. LaSalle Drive and east of the Chicago History Museum.
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