"GEOLOGY" Field Museum Natural Science Angel, Chicago, Illinois by Jack Nixon
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By: Jack Nixon
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Width: 18 in.
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Height: 8 in.
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Depth: 0 in.
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Medium: Pencil
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Material: Paper
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Style: Architectural
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Theme: Architecture
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About This Artwork
"GEOLOGY" FIELD MUSEUM NATURAL SCIENCE ANGEL 24 x 13" Framed Original Drawing ........ $1500.00
Signed & Numbered Photo-Offset Lithographs -
500 Large Prints18 x 8" $35.00, 24 x 13" Framed with Print $125.00
500 Small Prints11 x 5" $20.00, 16 x 9" Framed with Print $60.00
Located on the newly constructed Museum Campus, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. Daniel Burnham, supervising architect for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (the former site of the Field Columbian Museum) designed the present home for the Field Museum (1921).
Marshall Field had so favored the neoclassic lines of the Field Columbian Museum that he hired Burnham to design a structure grand enough to compare with the great museums of Europe and North America. Drawings for the new building included a massive structure replete with columns, porticos, and Beaux Arts decoration. Its facade is white Georgian marble and its columns are of the classic Greek Ionic order.
Two main entrances face north and south. Two caryatid porticos flank each entrance. Above each portico is an angel with the inscribed words of the four natural science disciplines: ANTHROPOLOGY, GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, and BOTANY. The sculptor, Henry Hering, also produced two of four high relief Michigan Avenue bridgehouse sculptures.
Copyright 1996 All Rights Reserved. Jack Nixon, Nixon Design Studio.