Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet - Chicago, IL - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Marquette and Jolliet, the first Europeans to see and map the Mississippi River, also passed this way.
The bronze work depicts two canoes beside each other with Louis Jolliet standing on the canoe in the back. Marquette is seated in the other canoe. The crew includes three Indians and three Europeans.

The text above the depiction and in two panels on each side of the relief read:
"In honor of Louis Jolliet & Pere Jacques Marquette. The first white men to pass through the Chicago River - September 1673. This tablet is placed by the Illinois Society of Colonial Dames of America under the auspices of the Chicago Historical Society - 1925"

This website (visit link) has some excellent detail photos of the relief. The one mistake that this website makes is that it indicates that the artist is unknown...but the relief is clearly signed and dated "Wheeler Williams Paris 1925".

Read more about Marquette at (visit link)

and more about Jolliet at (visit link)

Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1925 Website for sculpture?: [Web Link] Where is this sculpture?: SE pylon of the Michigan Avenue Bridge Chicago, IL USA Sculptors Name: Wheeler Williams

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