CHICAGO SCULPTURE in the Loop: April 2009

Henry Hering. Caryatids

Henry Hering had some experience with caryatids before sculpting the "Porch of the Maidens" ca 1911 (shown below) at Chicago's Field Museum. He also had received the commission for preparing the caryatids at The Palace of Fine Arts (now the Museum of Science and Industry) at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

D. H. Burnham and Company designed the Palace of Fine Arts. It was the successor firm, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White that designed the Field Museum and once again collaborated with Henry Hering, continuing the Classical Architecture of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

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FIELD MUSEUM. Henry Hering

Working seamlessly with Peirce Anderson to incorporate Sculpture and Architecture, Henry Hering produced these allegorical bas reliefs for the facade of the Field Museum.
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They represent "Anthropology" above and "Geology" below. More images are currently available at http://www.architectureintheloop.blogspot.com/ Posts to follow will describe Hering's interor work at the Field.

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UNION STATION. Day and Night

Stanford White looked around him at the design team who had begun work on the Chicago World's Fair and said that it was "the greatest assemblage of talent since the Renaissance." Sculptor's who had "got their start" at the Fair became important figures of the early twentieth century. And the tradition of Architecture and Sculpture working hand in hand in Chicago had begun.
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Above are Henry Hering's allegorical figures of Day and Night located in Union Station. They are fully integrated into the Architecture. See http://www.architectureintheloop.blogspot.com/ for a contextural photo. This was the beginning of a long relationship between Sculptor Hering and Architect Anderson. Anderson soon gave Hering the largest commission of his career: The Field Museum.