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. For most of his career he was based in

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Monument in Grant Park,

Public monuments

*Confederate Monument (1908)

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, (1915)

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Monument, (1928) Grant Park, Chicago *Heroes of Illinois Memorial (1928) Memphis National Cemetery,

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*Governor

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Memorial, (1929) Valley View Cemetery,

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* Polar Bear Memorial (1930) White Chapel Cemetery,

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Architectural sculpture

* Cathedral of St. Paul (1905),

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, Paul Cret, architect *

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(1927), Paul Cret et al. architect,

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*Radisson Chicago Hotel Reliefs, (1929), Chicago *One N La Salle Street (1930), Vitzthum & Burns architects, Chicago *

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at the Indiana State Library and Historical Building, (1934)

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*Four Modes of Travel, Calvert Street Bridge, now Duke Ellington Bridge, (1935) Washington D.C. *United States Customs Building, (1936)

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WPA *United States Interstate Commerce Commission Building, (1936) Washington D.C.

References

*Bach, Ira and Mary Lackritz Gray, ''Chicago's Public Sculpture'', University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983 *Falk, Peter Hastings, Editor ''Who Was Who in American Art'', Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985 *Kvaran and Lockley
''A Guide to Architectural Sculpture in America''
*Riedy, James L., ''Chicago Sculpture'', University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois 1981 *Rooney, William A., ''Architectural Ornamentation in Chicago'', Chicago Review Press, Chicago, 1984 *Scheinman, Muriel, ''A Guide to the Art at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park and Chicago'', University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1995

External links

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