On July 25th, The Trib's Alan Artner, their art critic, published a list on the 10 best outdoor sculptures in our fair city, plus another 10 online. As you know, I love lists, so here is another project, to view all these artworks in chronological order. Some are very familiar, some I never heard of.
First one - Abraham Lincoln by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1887
This is directly behind The Chicago History Museum at 1601 North Clark Street, just a tad north of North Avenue. There is a really super fountain at the northeast corner, where there is a bus staging. (place where buses start and end their routes) But the statue is down a short walk, around the museum to the back. And it is truly superb, best I've ever seen outside The Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Grand and
imposing, with wonderful Art Dec
o ends to the surrounding stone bench. According to Artner, "A portrait statue so admired internationally that in 1918 the British government approved a copy to stand outside Westminster Abbey"! And gorgeous gardens to boot. Beautiful, all.
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