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Metal bull moose sculpture, downtown Chicago.
Here in Toronto we have Moose too, but I like this Metallic moose quite a bit! Ours are colorful, but this one is large, heavy and powerful! It almost looks like it could move away on those powerful legs doesn’t it?
This is a sculpture that Pablo Picasso created for the city of Chicago. This statue has no name. It can be found in Chicago’s Daley Plaza.
The Chicago Picasso, an unpainted, three-dimensional, cubist sculpture standing 50 feet tall and weighing 162 tons, is made of Corrosive Tensile (“Cor-Ten”) steel, the same material used to build the Daley Center. Originally rust colored, the sculpture now has a darkish gray patina that nicely matches the one on the Daley Center building behind it.No doubt the most famous of Chicago’s many outdoor sculptures, the Chicago Picasso was unveiled in the Civic Center Plaza (as the Daley Plaza was then known), on August 15, 1967.
Greeted at first with much scorn and ridicule, the Chicago Picasso nonetheless marked the beginning of Chicago’s love affair with contemporary art, a love affair that would help turn downtown Chicago into a veritable open-air sculpture gallery, with some one hundred artworks spread all around the Loop for Chicagoans (and tourists) to enjoy.
The store, Carson Pirie Scott, was one of the most beautiful buildings that I saw while I was in Chicago. Sadly, I heard that this store will be closing soon. I hope they save the lovely metal work.
I’m not sure why,, but this alley captured my eye as we passed it while walking in the downtown Chicago area. Perhaps it was the light at the end of the alley or the darkness within.
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