''Monument with Standing Beast'' is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn designed

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in the

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community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from

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to the South and diagonal across the street from the

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to the southeast. It is a white fiberglass work of art. The piece is a 10-ton or work. It was unveiled on November 28, 1984. This is one of Dubuffet's three

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commissions in the United States. It has been taken to represent a standing animal, a tree, a portal and an architectural form. The sculpture is based on Dubuffet's 1960 painting series ''Hourloupe''. The sculpture and the series of figural and landscape designs it is a part of reflects his thoughts of earliest monumental commission, for the One Chase Manhattan Plaza. The sculpture is one of 19 commissioned artworks funded under the State of Illinois Art-in-Architecture Program throughout the building. This was commissioned by the Capital Development Board of Illinois. The sculpture is affectionately known to many Chicagoans as " Snoopy in a blender".

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