CHARLES ATWOOD AND .......MacNeil??

FISHER TWINS. FISHER BUILDING. 343 South Dearborn.

These twin boys, located on the building's south facade are reputed to be sons of the the Fisher Building's developer.  But I've been unable to credit the work to a sculptor.  Looking at these..., perhaps, maybe, it just might be.... some early work from Hermon Atkins Macneil.  It would make sense.  Atwood and MacNeil worked together at the World's Fair. Why not again at the Fisher Building -- where ornament on a very sparse frame takes on an almost ironic importance.

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CHARLES ATWOOD. Architecture and Ornament

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ATWOOD and MARTINY. Sculpture

The Museum of Science and Industry.

Charles Atwood's distinct talent for interpreting  and re-interpreting classical forms is highlighted on the North and South Facades of the The Fine Arts Building at the Columbian Exposition (Now the Museum of Science and Industry). In this photo we see Sculptural columns and Structural sculpture  -- an inversion in late afternoon sunlight.  Phillip Martiny, Sculptor, - and Atwood/s collaborator --   seems to have had an inate sense of mass and scale:  his figures are at perfect rest on Atwood's Ionic columns.

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CHARLES ATWOOD. Architectural Ornament

MARSHALL FIELD and Company

Charles Atwood was "in the thick" of designing  some 30 structures at the Columbian Exposition when he was given the Marshall Field Commission.  He did not give it short shrift.

Tucked below the cornice at Wabash and Washington, this piece of figural sculpture watches over the building.  The  quality is best seen with binoculars -- and by the lucky few with offices directly across the street......ten floors up.

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PHILLIP MARTINY. Museum of Science and Industry

These classsic Bas Reliefs, tucked away at the Museum of Science and Industry look remarkably similar to the frieze at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Both were sculpted by Philip Martiny. The Museum of Science and Industry was previously the Fine Arts Building at the Columbian Exposition of 1893. The two commissions were almost concurrent.