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Sunday, May 17, 2009

CHRIST OF THE LOOP

This brooding Christ sculpted by Arvid Strauss in 1953 looks down on Madison Street from Saint Peter's Church in Chicago. The Church was designed in 1953 by Chicago Architects Vitzthum and Burns.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

FOUNTAIN OF THE GREAT LAKES

Ontario extends her hand to the Sea. This striking woman is a detail from Lorado Taft's sculpture "Fountain of the Great Lakes." Made possible by the Benjamin Franklin Ferguson Fund, it stands today in the South Garden of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

MARSHALL FIELD CLOCK

Peirce Anderson, educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, designed the clock at Marshall Field and Company that has become a Chicago Landmark.
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