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Chicago

Flamingo

is a 53-foot (16 m) tall, 50 ton stabile, by Alexander Calder, located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois. It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974. It is composed of steel, and is vermilion in color, to offset it …

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Chicago Picasso

an untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture, dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza in the Chicago Loop, is 50 feet (15.2 m) tall and weighs 147 tons. The Cubist sculpture by Picasso was the first such major public artwork in Downtown Chicago, and has become a well known landmark. …

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Monument with Standing Beast

A sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the 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 a 29-foot (8.8 m), 10 ton (9,100 kg) white …

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