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Dream Lady

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Type
  
Bronze

Created
  
1922

Artist
  
Edward McCartan

Year
  
1922

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Location
  
Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Dream Lady, also known as the Eugene Field Memorial, is a bronze sculpture by Edward McCartan. It is located in Lincoln Park, Chicago.

Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an author and journalist, and wrote a humor column, "Sharps and Flats", for the Chicago Daily News. He was also well known as an author of poems for children.

History

The memorial cost $35,000, and was funded by public school children, citizens of Chicago and the B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund. It was dedicated on October 9, 1922.

The inscriptions reads:

  • On upper base front left side:
  • On upper base front right side:
  • On back of base:
  • References

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