July 25, 2008
EmailAlan Artner chooses Chicago's best public sculpture
(Chicago Tribune / May 1, 2008)The Republic, 1918
(Daniel Chester French)
Location: Hayes-Richards Circle, Jackson Park
At one-third the size of the artist's immense plaster statue at the World's Columbian Exposition, this gold leaf-over-bronze version was created for the fair's 25th anniversary and is on the site of the fair's administration building, at the west end of the basin, across from where the plaster originally stood.
- Alan Artner
(Daniel Chester French)
Location: Hayes-Richards Circle, Jackson Park
At one-third the size of the artist's immense plaster statue at the World's Columbian Exposition, this gold leaf-over-bronze version was created for the fair's 25th anniversary and is on the site of the fair's administration building, at the west end of the basin, across from where the plaster originally stood.
- Alan Artner
