Memory: Marshall Field Monument - Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
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N 41° 57.615 W 087° 39.684
16T E 445190 N 4645574
Female figure seated on a granite cube-like chair. One arm of the chair has a vertical relief panel of a male figure representing Equity and the other arm has a similar male figure of Integrity.
Waymark Code: WMC6H5
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/31/2011
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The figure rests her proper left elbow on the arm of the chair, head resting on her hand. Her proper right arm stretches across the chair.
Dimensions: Sculpture: approx. 7 ft. x 64 in. x 34 in.; Base: 59 in. x 7 ft. 6 in. x 6 ft.
Inscription: D. C. FRENCH Sc. 1911 / JNO WILLIAMS, INC./BRONZE FOUNDRY N.Y. (Proper right relief panel:) EQUITY (Proper left relief panel:) INTEGRITY signed Founder's mark appears.
The monument rests at the east end of the family plot and there are no names inscribed upon it. The graves of Marshall Field (1835 - 1906: famous "merchant prince" of turn of the 19th century Chicago) and his family are found in a row fairly far in front of the monument. The sculptor Daniel Chester French is renowned for his works such as The Republic in Chicago's Jackson Park and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Henry Bacon provided the architectural setting for this site as well as the Lincoln Memorial. Although the scale is reduced here, you can see the similarities. (source: Ira Bach "Chicago's Public Sculpture" 1983)