Originally installed along Chicago's lakefront, Helping Hands sat in storage for several years after being severly vanadalized. The Chicago Park District and the Art Institute of Chicago cooperatively conserved the artwork and relocated it in Chicago Women's Park, 2011.
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This highly symbolic sculptural group memorializes Jane Addams with a series of carved granite hands, 2011.
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In her book entitled Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Addams wrote, R20Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward,R21 2011
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Originally installed along Chicago's lakefront, Helping Hands sat in storage for several years after being severly vanadalized. The Chicago Park District and the Art Institute of Chicago cooperatively conserved the artwork and relocated it in Chicago Women's Park, 2011.
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This highly symbolic sculptural group memorializes Jane Addams with a series of carved granite hands, 2011.
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In her book entitled Twenty Years at Hull House, Jane Addams wrote, R20Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward,R21 2011