Chicago Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Monuments and public art=== {{Main|List of public art in Chicago}} [[File:Replica of the Statue of the Republic (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Replica of [[Daniel Chester French]]'s [[Statue of The Republic]] at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition]] Chicago is famous for its outdoor [[public art]] with donors establishing funding for such art as far back as [[Benjamin F. Ferguson|Benjamin Ferguson]]'s 1905 trust.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/chicago/2013/10/street-art-tour-murals-hyde-park-university-chicago-illinois_slideshow_item0_1 |title=The Public Art Scene You're Missing in Chicago |date=October 1, 2013 |publisher=Conde Nast Traveler |access-date=November 18, 2013 |archive-date=October 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016194149/http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/chicago/2013/10/street-art-tour-murals-hyde-park-university-chicago-illinois_slideshow_item0_1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A number of Chicago's public art works are by modern figurative artists. Among these are [[Four Seasons (Chagall)|Chagall's Four Seasons]]; the [[Chicago Picasso]]; [[Miró's Chicago|Miro's Chicago]]; [[Alexander Calder|Calder's]] [[Flamingo (sculpture)|Flamingo]]; [[Claes Oldenburg|Oldenburg's]] [[Batcolumn]]; [[Henry Moore|Moore's]] [[Large Interior Form, 1953-54]], [[Man Enters the Cosmos]] and [[Nuclear Energy (sculpture)|Nuclear Energy]]; [[Jean Dubuffet|Dubuffet's]] [[Monument with Standing Beast]], [[Magdalena Abakanowicz|Abakanowicz's]] [[Agora (sculpture)|Agora]]; and, [[Anish Kapoor]]'s [[Cloud Gate]] which has become an icon of the city. Some events which shaped the city's history have also been memorialized by art works, including the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Northern Migration]] ([[Alison Saar|Saar]]) and the [[Illinois Centennial Memorial Column|centennial of statehood for Illinois]]. Finally, two fountains near the Loop also function as monumental works of art: [[Jaume Plensa|Plensa's]] [[Crown Fountain]] as well as [[Daniel Burnham|Burnham]] and Bennett's [[Buckingham Fountain]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crown Fountain in Millennium Park |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicartcrownfountaininmillenniumpark.html |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=www.chicago.gov |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain {{!}} Chicago Park District |url=https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/clarence-f-buckingham-memorial-fountain |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=www.chicagoparkdistrict.com}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page