sculpture Archives - Chicago's 1893 Worlds Fair

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Agriculture Building (p. 51)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Agriculture Building (p. 51)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Agriculture Building (p. 51)

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 51 – THE AGRICULTURE BUILDING THE AGRICULTURE BUILDING.—Viewed from the northwest, different facades of the great Agriculture Building can be seen and a fair idea obtained of its magnitude and beauty. Though but a single story in height, most imposing effects were sought in the design of the structure and were fully realized. Its dimensions were, for the main building, eight hundred by five hundred feet, and for the [...]

By Randy|2022-01-23T11:30:54-06:00May 25th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Farmer's Bridge, McKim Mead and White, Philip Martiny, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, sculpture, Zodiac|0 Comments

Out Like a Lamb
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Out Like a Lamb

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Out Like a Lamb

March came in like a lion, so it should go out like a lamb, right? "Mary & Her Lamb" [Image from the Keystone-Mast Collection, UC Riverside, California Museum of Photography.] Choosing a lion from among the many prominent felines present at the 1893 World’s fair was quite easy for our post back on March 1. Finding a lamb for this accompanying end-of-the-month post has been a much more challenging hunt! We present here a photograph of the sculpture [...]

By Scott|2018-07-15T09:58:30-05:00March 30th, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Arachne The Spinner, Book of the Fair, Danish Pavilion, Denmark, Hans Christian Anderson, Herman Vilhelm Bissen, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Palace of Fine Arts, Revised Catalog Department of Fine Arts, sculpture, Shepherdess|1 Comment

In Like a Lion
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In Like a Lion

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In Like a Lion

The month of March, the saying goes, comes “in like a lion, out like a lamb.” Lions—both real and plaster—could be found at several locations around the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. One example is Lions by German sculptor M. Arthur Waagen. This set of four lion sculptures adorned the base of the obelisk, which stood in the center of the Colonnade in the South Canal, between Machinery Hall and the Agricultural Building. The Chicago Daily [...]

By Scott|2022-07-08T15:42:53-05:00March 1st, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Agricultural Building, colonnade, Edward Kemeys, M. A. Waagen, Machinery Hall, sculpture, South Canal|0 Comments

Wishing our readers a plentiful Thanksgiving!
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Wishing our readers a plentiful Thanksgiving!

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Wishing our readers a plentiful Thanksgiving!

THE STATUE OF "PLENTY" from Picturesque World's Fair (W. B. Conkey, 1894). The pieces of statuary which stood beside the portals of the great buildings or bridge approaches, or on pedestals overlooking the Grand Basin and canals and lagoons, had all definite names fitted to the idea of their conception. What Kemeys and Proctor did with wild animals Potter and French did with domestic ones, introducing them in statuary with fine effect. The Statue of "Plenty" was well conceived in [...]

By Randy|2018-03-11T10:15:43-05:00November 23rd, 2017|Categories: NEWS, REPRINTS|Tags: Daniel Chester French, Edward Potter, Grand Basin, sculpture, Statue of Plenty|0 Comments

through Jan. 15, 2018 (Norwich, CT): Exhibit on Bela Pratt, World’s Fair Sculptor
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through Jan. 15, 2018 (Norwich, CT): Exhibit on Bela Pratt, World’s Fair Sculptor

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through Jan. 15, 2018 (Norwich, CT): Exhibit on Bela Pratt, World’s Fair Sculptor

One of the sculptors who contributed to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is the subject of a new exhibition at the Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich, Connecticut. “Bela Lyon Pratt: Sculptor of Monument," which opened on October 15, 2017, and runs through January 15, 2018, showcases “50 sculptural works and two-dimensional works of art, text and archival material” from the Norwich native. One of two sculptural groupings of The Genius of Navigation by Bela Pratt. [...]

By Scott|2022-08-13T11:50:03-05:00October 22nd, 2017|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: Bela Pratt, Peristyle, sculpture|0 Comments