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 Title:
Fountain of Time
Artist:
Lorado Taft
Commissioned
by: Ferguson Fund, Currently owned by the Chicago Park
District
Location:
The west end of the Midway at the entrance to Washington Park
Medium:
Concrete
Commentary:
This work is currently enclosed in a large structure inside which
work is being done to restore it. For the time being you can't
see it.
This sculpture represents a line of men and women marching in
various attitudes from exhilaration to despair, watched by a dark
figure representing time. It was meant to be one of a pair, with
a "Fountain of Creation" at the other end of the Midway,
with a line of smaller sculptures going down the midway along
a canal joining them. The "Fountain of Creation" , the
canal and the line of smaller sculptures were never funded, much
to the disappointment of Lorado Taft.
The Fountain of Time was the first major sculpture created in
concrete, used instead of granite because of its cost. It has
not worn well and the main body is now covered for its protection
and unavailable to the public. The Chicago Park District has scheduled
it for renovation.
When it is reopened, a circular garden will be planted around
the fountain with funds provided by Alison Davis Jr., a local
developer, in memory of his father who was the first African-American
professor at the University of Chicago.
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