Gorilla | Artwork

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Location:

2045 N Lincoln Park West
Chicago, IL 60614

Location Notes:

Outside Regenstein Center for African Apes facing the zebra habitat

Located Within: Lincoln (Abraham) Park

Installed: 1976

Year Relocated: 2005

Features: Outdoor, Sculpture

Description

This stylized outline of a gorilla is incised into a granite boulder. The Lincoln Park Zoo commissioned the carved artwork for the Lester E. Fisher Great Ape House in 1976. In recent years, the Regenstein Center for African Apes replaced the older building, but the sculptural boulder remains.