Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain

fountain, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Also known as: Buckingham Fountain

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    …of the world’s largest fountains—Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain (dedicated 1927), which graces Grant Park just east of downtown. Beginning in the 1960s, Chicago acquired contemporary sculptures by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Richard Hunt, and others. The most famous is perhaps the Pablo Picasso

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