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 Title:
Harold Washington Memorial Book
Artist:
Walter S. Arnold
Commissioned
by: Chicago Parks District
Location:
East End Park, Harold Washington Playground--53rd Street at South
Shore Drive
Medium:
Limestone and Bronze
Commentary:
Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago,
lived in an apartment across from the park where this work is
found. The play lot was made and named for him after his death.
The book is meant to represent the book of his life and is placed
at a level where children can read it.
Walter Arnold, the sculptor, is a Hyde Park resident who made
the humorous gargoyles on the Medici and made a great many decorations
inside the new Lab School gym.
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