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Ridge Park: Vanderpoel Collection

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July 28, 2015
The Vanderpoel Collection includes several sculptures such as a bronze model
Media Caption
The Vanderpoel Collection includes several sculptures such as a bronze model of Lorado Taft's Abraham Lincoln.The full size version resides in Urbana, Illinois' Clark Park. On the wall behind Lincoln, near the red flowers a portrait by Mary Bradish Titcomb is called Girl with Gainsborough Hat, 2012, photo by James Iska.
The painting at the lower right is Sunny Days, by Oskar Gross, an Austrian artist who painted murals
Media Caption
The painting at the lower right is Sunny Days, by Oskar Gross, an Austrian artist who painted murals for the Paris Exposition of 1900. Renowned architect Daniel Burnham saw this work and asked Gross to come to Chicago. Just to the left is a painting by Wallace DeWolf named Eucalyptus Trees, 2012, photo by James Iska.
In the center of the wall behind the piano are two paintings by Maxfield Parrish, Solitude Temper
Media Caption
In the center of the wall behind the piano are two paintings by Maxfield Parrish, Solitude Temper, and Entrance of Pompdebile, King of Hearts. At the far left of that wall, the second from the bottom is Red Earth Walls by Ernest Martin Hennings, a student of John Vanderpoel, 2012, photo by James Iska.
The Vanderpoel Collection includes several sculptures such as a bronze model
Media Caption
The Vanderpoel Collection includes several sculptures such as a bronze model of Lorado Taft's Abraham Lincoln.The full size version resides in Urbana, Illinois' Clark Park. On the wall behind Lincoln, near the red flowers a portrait by Mary Bradish Titcomb is called Girl with Gainsborough Hat, 2012, photo by James Iska.
The painting at the lower right is Sunny Days, by Oskar Gross, an Austrian artist who painted murals
Media Caption
The painting at the lower right is Sunny Days, by Oskar Gross, an Austrian artist who painted murals for the Paris Exposition of 1900. Renowned architect Daniel Burnham saw this work and asked Gross to come to Chicago. Just to the left is a painting by Wallace DeWolf named Eucalyptus Trees, 2012, photo by James Iska.
In the center of the wall behind the piano are two paintings by Maxfield Parrish, Solitude Temper
Media Caption
In the center of the wall behind the piano are two paintings by Maxfield Parrish, Solitude Temper, and Entrance of Pompdebile, King of Hearts. At the far left of that wall, the second from the bottom is Red Earth Walls by Ernest Martin Hennings, a student of John Vanderpoel, 2012, photo by James Iska.

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