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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MARSHALL FIELD CLOCK. Sculpture. Art. Architecture

More views of the Peirce Anderson's clock at State and Randolph. Note the highly creative implementation of a traditional Beaux Arts motif. See more at the previous post.

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Life's not all Sculpture and Architecture. Take a look at photographs of the Chicago Air and Water Show posted at CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE IN THE LOOP.

William Lebaron Jenney?

These decorative sculptures are located on the East Facade at 312 South Federal, directly behind the existing Union League Club, designed by Mundie & Jensen in 1928. If this small building at 312 is a remnant of the original Union League, the Architect would have been William LeBaron Jenney. (Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, John Root, and William Holabird all worked in Jenney's office.) The building would be dated 1880. Does anyone know more?

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The Gothic Revival Style with its tracery and arches would be date appropriate to 1880. The Monadnock Building, directly to the East was constructed in 1891, and combined with the narrowness of (pre-automobile) Federal Street, makes this little corner of the City decidedly 19th Century. A perfect place for a Chicago mystery. For more detailed information about Architect/Engineer William LeBaron Jenney see http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/Architects/Jenney.html

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