The Chicago Picasso is an untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso that stands in Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. Made of COR-TEN steel, it was dedicated on August 15, 1967, and is about 50 feet tall. The Chicago Civic Center architects commissioned it in 1963; Picasso made a maquette in 1965, approved a final model in 1966 and declined payment, offering the work as a gift to the city. The steel was fabricated by the American Bridge Company in Gary, Indiana, then taken apart and rebuilt on site. It was the first monumental abstract public artwork in downtown Chicago, met with loud controversy at first, and later became a well known civic landmark.
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The Chicago Picasso (often just "The Picasso") is an untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois.
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The 1967 installation of the Picasso, wrote Ruth Lopez in The Art Newspaper
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The sculpture was fabricated by the American Bridge Company division of the United States Steel Corporation in Gary, Indiana using COR-TEN steel
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is 50 feet (15.2 m) tall and weighs 162
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The Chicago Picasso (often just "The Picasso") is an untitled monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois.
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