This entry is about eagle fountains, yes. It’s also about the restoration of art objects and even of buildings. Frederick Cleveland Hibbard created two fountains that, when in place, face each other on either side of East Congress Parkway at Michigan Avenue. Depictions of eagles that have successfully fished, they Continue Reading
Frederick Cleveland Hibbard
The Dentist in the Park
You can picture the faces. Visitors to Lincoln Park walk up to a statue, look at it and walk away saying, “Who?” Many of Chicago’s parks contain monuments that are like that. Humboldt. Schiller. Altgeld, not to name just Germans. Schiller. A sculpture that stands in a lovely, very prominent Continue Reading