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The bronze sculptures for the Art Institute of Chicago were commissioned by Florence Lathrop Field, an early benefactor of the museum. [3] Fields' late husband Henry Field had been an admirer of Kemeys' sculptures, and her brother Bryan Lathrop, a trustee of the Art Institute, had been a patron of Kemeys.
The Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, also known as the Tadeusz Kościuszko Memorial and the Thaddeus Kosciuszko Memorial, [1] [2] is an outdoor sculpture by artist Kazimierz Chodziński depicting Tadeusz Kościuszko, installed in the median of East Solidarity Drive, near Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, in the U.S. state of Illinois.
Agora is an installation of 106 headless and armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park in Chicago. Designed by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, they were made in a foundry near Poznań between 2004 and 2006. [1] In 2006, the Chicago Park District brought the work to Chicago as a permanent loan from the Polish Ministry of ...
The Henry B. and Caroline Clarke/Bishop Louis Henry and Margaret Ford House or Clarke-Ford House is a Greek Revival style home, now serving as a house museum in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Built around 1836, it is considered the oldest existing house built in Chicago.
Hempstead Washburne, mayor of Chicago [60] Frank Wenter, politician [61] Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon who performed one of the first successful operations on the pericardium [62] George Ellery Wood, lumber baron. [63] His home, built in 1885, on 2801 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, IL is a historical landmark [64]
In December 1970, John, back home in Indianola, Iowa, after serving in the Vietnam War as a Marine, proposed to his girlfriend Joan on Christmas Eve. After getting married, the couple decided to ...
The memorial monument is located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District in the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986. [1] It was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 9, 1998. [4] An annual Memorial Day ceremony is held at ...
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