
This 192 page full color presentation chronologically documents extant figural sculpture in the heart of downtown Chicago. Volume I covers the time period from the Great Chicago Fire and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 through the Burnham Plan and the early years of the Roaring Twenties. This collection will be of interest to the serious scholar and to those of us who love Chicago and its remarkable history.

FEATURED SCULPTORS Walter Arnold, Carl Beil, Richard Bock, Gutzon Borglum, Amy Aldis Bradley, Rene Chambellan, Alexander Chodinski, Leonard Crunelle, Benjamin Franklin Ferguson, John Flanagan, James Earle Fraser, Augusta Freeman, Daniel Chester French, Wladyslaw Galimski, Johannes Gelert, Oskar Gross, Henry Hering, Leon Hermant, Frederick Hibbard, John Higgins, Milton, Horn, John Antoine Hourdon, Richard Hunt, Alfonso Iannelli, Edward Kemeys, Eugene Lux, Gwen Lux, Hermon Atkins Macneil, Frederick MacMonniesPhilip Martiny, Franz Machtl, Alvin Meyer, Joan Miro Ezekial Moses, Hiram Powers, Pablo Picasso, Augustus Saint Gaudens, John Storrs, Joseph Strachowsky, Lorado Taft, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Leonard Volk, Nellie Walker, Emil Zeitler...............
FEATURED BUILDINGS. The Anti-Cruelty Society, Art Institute of Chicago, Auditorium Building, Brooks Building, Carbon and Carbide, Builders Building, Carson Pirie Scott, Chicago and Northwestern Railway, Chicago Athletic Associationm, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Building, Chicago Club, Chicago Motor Club, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago Theatre, City Hall, Civic Opera Block, Conway Building, Daily News Building, The Delaware Building, Dixon Building, The Edison Building, Federal Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Field Building, Fisher Building, Foreman State National Bank, Hartford Plaza, Illinois Merchants Bank, Jewelers Building, London Guarantee, Marina City, Marshall Field and Company, Majestic Theatre, McClurg Building, McCormick Building, McGraw Hill Building, Medinah Athletic Club, Merchandise Mart, Monroe Building, Old Republic Building, Manhattan Building, Marquette Building, Mather Tower, Mentor Building, Monadnock Building, Old Colony Building, Oliver Building, Palmer House, Peoples Gas, Page Brothers Building, Plymouth Building, Prudential Plaza, Rae Building, The Rookery, Saint Patrick's Church, Sears Tower, Second Leiter Building, Selwyn Theatre, Silversmith Building, Straus Bank, Singer Building, State-Lake Theatre, Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall, Traders Building, Trustees System Service Building, Union Station,University Club, Washington Block, Williams Building, Willoughby Tower