Pavane to Chicago

Name/Title

Pavane to Chicago

Entry/Object ID

5901

Description

Plate inscription included

Artwork Details

Medium

Bronze with concrete base

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum

Made/Created

Artist

Pattison, Abbot

Date made

1981

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Label

Transcription

"Put into a hopper - a large portion of the sun rising majestically every morning for a millennium; add the beauty and life-giving quality of Lake Michigan with its turbulent and limped moods; and to that add a river that caused the first settlement here in this place, then add five-million humans and five-million birds and animals in the greater Chicago area; then add the fierce energy and activities of all these living creatures; and add to that the sound of the city in the middle of the night when even then - one can hear the throbbing pulse of the place. Well now, mix this all up and one beholds CHICAGO and a sculpture of this couldn't be just a person, nor an animal, nor the lake, nor the sun - but some creation containing all of these things. And this sculpture contains, for the artist, a suggestion of the sun in the upper southern portion - and of the water movement throughout - and the surge of life everywhere."

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Bronze

Class

SCULPTURE

Dimensions

Dimension Description

base

Length

35.56 cm

Diameter

165.1 cm

Dimension Description

image

Width

223.52 cm

Depth

91.44 cm

Length

223.52 cm