Above Image: Lions – by Edward Kemeys [1894]

Chicago Public Art TimeLine /
Chronology of Sculptures in Chicago

My “Public Art in Chicago” website and blogs are dedicated to the sculpture community of Chicago. In making this Chicago Public Art Timeline, I have drawn heavily from the book, “A Guide to Chicago’s Public Sculptures”, by Ira J. Bach and Mary Lackritz Gray. This book has been my guiding force since I started blogging on Public Art of Chicago in 2007.

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Chicago Public Art TimeLine
Part I: 1864 – 1913.. click here
Part II: 1914 – 1966.. click here..
Part III: 1967 – 1999.. click here..
Part IV: 2000 – Present.. click here..

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Chicago Public Art TimeLine: Part I
1864- 1913

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1864
Volunteer Fire Fighters’ Monument – by Leonard W. Volk.. click here..

1870
Our Heroes: Civil War Monument – by Leonard W. Volk.. click here..

1881
Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Memorial – by Leonard W. Volk.. click here..

1881
Drexel Fountain – by Henry Manger.. click here..

1884
The Alarm – by John J. Boyle.. click here..

1886
Johann von Schiller – by Ernst Bildhauer Rau.. click here..

1887
Abraham Lincoln [standing] – by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.. click here..
Bates Fountain / Storks at Play – by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.. click here..

1889
LaSalle Monument – by Count Jacques de La Laing.. click here..

1890
Getty Tomb – by Louis H. Sullivan.. click here..

1891
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial – by Louis Rebisso.. click here..
Christopher Columbus [rededicated 1966] – by Moses Ezekiel.. click here..
Carl von Linne Monument [rededicated 1976] – by Carl Johan Dyfverman.. click here..

1892
Alexander von Humboldt – by Felix Gorling.. click here..

1893
World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago..click here..
Rosenberg Fountain – by Franz Machtl.. click here..
Fort Dearborn Massacre – by Carl Rohl-Smith
Drake Fountain / The Columbus Monument – by Richard Henry Park.. click here..
Fritz Reuter – by Franz Engelsman.. click here..

1894
Chicago Stock exchange Arch installed – by Adler Sullivan.. click here..
Lions – by Edward Kemeys.. click here..
Jacques Marquette Memorial – by Edward Kemeys, Herman MacNeil, J.A.Holzer.. click here..
William Shakespeare – by William Ordway Partridge.. click here..
Signal of Peace [1890] – by Cyrus Edwin Dallin.. click here..

1895
St. Martin and the Beggar
Mosaic panels at Marquette Building by J.A. Holzer of Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. click here..

1896
Benjamin Franklin Monument – by Richard Henry Park.. click here..
Hans Cristian Andersen Monument – by Johannes Sophus Gelert.. click here..

1897
General John Logan Memorial – by Auguste Saint-Gaudens.. click here..
Preston Bradley Hall at Chicago Cultural Center – by J.A. Holzer of Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. click here..

1898
Fullerton Hall at Art Institute of Chicago – designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany .. click here..

1899
Architectural ornament at Carson Pirie Scott & Co

1901
Giuseppi Garibaldi [relocated 1982]– by Victor E. Gherardi.. click here..
Leif Ericson – by Sigvald Asbjornsen.. click here..

1902
Independence Square Fountain – by Charles J. Mulligan.. click here..

1904
Thaddeus Kosciuzsko Memorial – by Kasimir Chodsinski.. click here..
George Washington Memorial

1905
Fountain Figures [Crane Girl, Fisher Boy, Dove Girl and Turtle Boy] – by Leonard Crunelle.. click here..
William McKinley Monument – by Charles J. Mulligan
Lincoln, the Orator – by Charles J. Mulligan

1906
Robert Burns – by W. Grant Stevenson.. click here..

1907
Carter Henry Harrison – by Frederick Cleveland Hibbard

1908
Freize Illinois Athletic Club

1909
Bull with Maiden – by Daniel Chester French and Edward Potter.. click here..
Wright-Bock Fountain
Eternal Silence – by Lorado Taft..click here..

1911
Lincoln, the Railsplitter – by Charles J. Mulligan.. click here..
Home: Minor and Child – by Charles J. Mulligan..
Bisons – by Edward Kemeys.. click here..

1913
Fountain of the Great Lakes – by Lorado Taft.. click here..
Johann Wolfgang von Gothe Monument – by Herman Hahn.. click here..
Pastoral and Idyl – by Lorado Taft.. click here..

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RELATED LINKS:
Chicago Public Art Timeline: Part I / 1894 – 1913.. click here
Chicago Public Art Timeline: Part II / 1914 – 1966.. click here..
Chicago Public Art Timeline: Part III / 1967 – 1999.. click here..
Chicago Public Art Timeline: Part IV: 2000 – Present.. click here..

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1898: Fullerton Hall at Art Institute of Chicago.. click here..