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Home (The Miner and His Child), 1901 (installed 1911)
Charles J. Mulligan
Humboldt Park
Near Division Street and
California Avenue
A sentimental
limestone rendering of a miner embracing his young daughter, the statue has
suffered tremendous damage from weather and neglect but viewers may still sense
the tenderness expressed between the powerful miner and small child. This work
was exhibited at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, where
President McKinley was shot, and sculptor Charles J. Mulligan would later
create a bronze monument to McKinley for Chicago’s McKinley Park.
Mulligan was known for his sympathetic depictions of American workers and his portrait of Abraham Lincoln that stands in Garfield Park shows the sixteenth President as a young railsplitter. Mulligan was working as a stonecutter when discovered by sculptor Lorado Taft and he eventually succeeded Taft as head of the sculpture department at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Mulligan was known for his sympathetic depictions of American workers and his portrait of Abraham Lincoln that stands in Garfield Park shows the sixteenth President as a young railsplitter. Mulligan was working as a stonecutter when discovered by sculptor Lorado Taft and he eventually succeeded Taft as head of the sculpture department at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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