Monument with Standing Beast

Monument With Standing Beast

Artist	Jean Dubuffet
Year	1984
Type	Fiberglass
Dimensions	880 cm (350 in)
Location	James R. Thompson Center (outdoor), Chicago, IL

Monument with Standing Beast is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn designed James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from Chicago City Hall to the South and diagonal across the street from the Daley Center to the southeast. It is at 29 feet (8.8 m) white fiberglass work of art.^[1] The piece is a 10 ton or 20,000 pounds (9,100 kg) work.^[2] It was unveiled on November 28, 1984.^[2]

This is one of Dubuffet's three monumental sculpture commissions in the United States. It has been taken to represent a standing animal, a tree, a portal and an architectural form.^[1] The sculpture is based on Dubuffet's 1960 painting series Hourioupe.^[3] 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.^[3]

The sculpture is one of 19 commissioned artworks funded under the State of Illinois Art-in-Architecture Program throughout the building.^[3] This was commissioned by the Illinois Capital Development Board.^[3]

View facing northwest: James R. Thompson Center in the background

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Artropolis". Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.. 2007. http://www.merchandisemart.com/artropolis/citywide_events/public_art/index.html. Retrieved 2007-05-30. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Dubuffet: Monument with Standing Beast". Chicago Public Library. August 1996. http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/dubuffet.html. Retrieved 2007-06-06. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} "Monument with Standing Beast". http://www.state.il.us/cms/jrtc/beast.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-06. 

Coordinates: 41°53′05″N 87°37′52″W / 41.88475°N 87.63121°W / 41.88475; -87.63121

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