Model city.
At the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
One of the reasons for my recent trip was to gather all the FatChance siblings and distribute some of the personal items left unclaimed and unassigned when our parents passed away. None of the things were of particular intrinsic value, but they are still the stuff of memory and shared history, and therefore beyond price. So, I am now the custodian of my father’s shoe brush, and of my mother’s bronzed baby shoe, and her class ring - if only for a little while, until they are shuffled and reassigned again someday, by my children or theirs.
My sisters insisted that this little green viewfinder, kept for many years in my father’s sock drawer, should go to me. If you hold it to the light and peer through you are rewarded with a tiny image of three-year-old me.
Renoir Hands, No. 5.
Detail / Madame Léon Clapisson / 1883 / Pierre-August Renoir / Art Institute of Chicago
Renoir Hands, No. 4.
Detail / Two Sisters (On the Terrace) / 1881 / Pierre-August Renoir / Art Institute of Chicago
Renoir Hands, No. 3.
Detail / Jean Renoir Sewing / 1899 / Pierre-August Renoir / Art Institute of Chicago
Renoir Hands, No. 2.
Detail / Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers’ Lunch) / 1875 / Pierre-August Renoir / Art Institute of Chicago
Renoir Hands, No. 1.
Detail / Young Woman Sewing / 1897 / Pierre-August Renoir / Art Institute of Chicago
Buckingham Fountain, Chicago.
Chicago Harbor Light.
The lighthouse was originally constructed in 1893 to coincide with the World’s Columbian Exhibition as a showcase for U.S. maritime technological and engineering skill. It was moved to it’s current location in 1919.
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Draped Statue No. 4.
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Draped Statue No. 3.
Draped Statue No. 2.
