AMY ALDIS BRADLEY. LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY. The MacArthur Foundation.

Thank Amy Aldis Bradley for the "idealized" Louis Jolliet at the Marquette Building. For more of the story visit the MacArthur Foundation's fine new website here.

It's not my imagination. This Native American does have a mustache. And looks, maybe, Italian??

THE MARQUETTE BUILDING. Amy Aldis Bradley. "The Vision."

So, Amy said, "Hermon, this is what Father Marquette looked like." And Hermon said, "Amy, you've got to be kidding........." Discussions like this, that most certainly took place, are gone forever. We are, however, left, with Amy's "Vision." And a sense of "entre nous" humor that we will never never quite "get. " (And if you think this needs explanation -- take a look at the white guy with a mustache dressed up like an Indian in the Tiffany mosaics.)

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FATHER JACQUES MARQUETTE. by Amy Aldis Bradley

If anyone knows more of the real story, or even knows of speculation, PLEASE COMMENT.