''Dream Lady'', also known as the Eugene Field Memorial, is a

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

sculpture by

Edward McCartan Edward Francis McCartan (August 16, 1879 – September 20, 1947) was an American sculptor, best known for his decorative bronzes done in an elegant style popular in the 1920s. Life Born in Albany, New York, he studied at the Pratt Institut ...

. It is located in

Lincoln Park Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, ...

, Chicago. Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an author and journalist, and wrote a humor column, "Sharps and Flats", for the '' Chicago Daily News''. He was also well known as an author of poems for children.

History

The memorial cost $35,000, and was funded by public school children, citizens of Chicago and the B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund. It was dedicated on October 9, 1922. The inscriptions reads:
*On upper base front left side:

Have you ever heard of the sugar plum tree tis a marvel of great renown it blooms on the shore of the lollipop sea in the garden of shut eye town.

*On upper base front right side:

Wynken, Blinken and Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.

*On back of base:

Erected in 1922 by school children and citizens aided by the Benj. F. Ferguson Fund"Eugene Field Memorial, (sculpture)"
''SIRIS''

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120402222911/http://www.cpdit01.com/resources/planning-and-development.fountains-monuments-and-sculptures/Lincoln%20Park%20Zoo/Eugene%20Field%20Memorial.pdf
"Eugene field Memorial"
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