Public Sculpture

Gargoyles and stained glass on the Medici Restaurant near the University of Chicago

Art in the streets...

Walter S. Arnold, Sculptor/Stone Carver
Chicago, U.S.A.
A collection of my art in public places.

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Installation of this 9 foot tall fountain was finished in August 1996. It is built of 92 pieces of stone, and the carving was completed over a 10 month period. Carved from two types of limestone, Indiana Limestone and a golden brown Minnesota limestone, two bronze frogs sit on the edge of the pool spouting water. Water shoots out the top, cascades down, and flows from the mouths of the three lions.

The central part of the fountain features a lion; water spouts from its mouth. On the bowl above its head rests a bundle of four Romanesque columns, topped by another bowl.
This fountain is located in the gardens of Driehaus Capital Management at 25 E. Erie St. If you're visiting Chicago, walk by and take a look!

Tympanum, Commonwealth Edison Substation, Ontario & Dearborn, Chicago.

A Monument to Mayor Harold Washington, Social Security Center, 600 W. Madison St., Chicago.

Another Monument to Mayor Harold Washington, in Limestone and Bronze. This one is in a children's playground dedicated in his name at 53rd St. and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.

Turtle drinking fountain with children drinking from it. Limestone and bronze. Goudy Square Park, Chicago. For more images of this fountain, visit my Animals page!

Bronze portrait of Eli Schulman, Seneca Park, Chicago.

Architectural Detail - niche on the Chicago Tribune Tower

Restoration carving for the Chicago Tribune Tower.

Monkey panels for Lincoln Park Zoo, Brach Primate House.

Tree stump tombstones are an old tradition, and were very popular one hundred years ago. New ones are very rare. This is a double tree- two trees carved from one block of limestone symbolize the couple memorialized here.

Completed in the summer of 1995, this stone honors a contributor to Seneca Park, a beautiful little public park near Chicago's Water Tower. It is designed to blend in with the gardens, appearing like a natural outcropping of stone. Foliage is carved into the rough block. Set in the stone is a bronze plaque.

Telamones - Telamones is the male form of Caryatid, a carved figure serving as a structural or decorative column. These four figures, measuring 12'6" tall (3.8 m) were installed in the lobby of the House of Blues hotel, a Loews hotel in downtown Chicago in September 1998. The Telamones are cast in fiberglass. I carved the original model in stone. It was enlarged to make the full sized master model, from which the mold was made.

In 2008, a new owner took over the hotel, and these sculptures were removed as part of a complete interior redesign.

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