Category Archives: Special Feature: Lost and Found Art

   

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August 2015 created quite an excitement among Chicago historians and art aficionados with the announcement that three Japanese sliding door paintings from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition were discovered in a Park District storage facility. “At a time when we are working to honor Jackson Park’s historic past by revitalizing the park to restore Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision, it is a thrilling...
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Sculptures "Agriculture" and "Industry" - Unknown Artist 

Location: Chicago Board of Trade building plaza.

Description: Granite / 12 foot high / Five-&-half ton weight..

Lost for 49 years. Returned to original location after 75 years.

The plaque reads.. "Now a part of the LaSalle Street Plaza, the exchange's symbolic statues serve as a daily...

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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...

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Theodore Thomas Memorial / The Spirit of Music Statue - by Albin Polasek [sculptor] and Howard Van Doren Shaw [architect].

Location: Chicago’s Grant Park on the corner of Balbo and South Michigan Avenue, near the Hilton Hotel.

Completed: 1923

Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund, as a memorial to Theodore Thomas [1835-1905], first conductor of...

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