Man Enters the Cosmos (Sundial), 1980
Henry Moore
Northerly Island,
northwest of Adler Planetarium
Henry Moore (1898-1986), a British sculptor best known
for his monumental abstract sculptures that draw visual analogies between the
human body and landscape forms, made his first sundials between 1965-67. One
was placed in the Printing House Square for the Times of London (later sold to IBM Corporation and placed at a
location near Brussels). The sculpture consists of a thin bronze rod support by
two intersecting bronze semicircles and the rod marks the time by casting a
shadow on the ground. The 13-foot high Chicago sundial is nearly identical to
the original one, with slight modifications. Moore added a golden patina to
acknowledge the 50th anniversary of modern astronomy and had to
adjust to sculpture itself to accommodate the ten degree difference in latitude
between London and Chicago. The B. F. Ferguson Fund donated this work to the
Chicago Park District and Moore worked with architects Hammond, Beeby, and
Babka on the installation process.
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