Riverwalk Gateway (Chicago, Illinois)
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Ellen Lanyon's ceramic murals offers Chicago pedestrians a pictorial narrative of the city's history as it is entwined to the Chicago River. In 1998, the painter Ellen Lanyon won a competition to create ceramic murals for the two 127-foot-long walls which flank the Riverwalk Gateway.
On each side 6 introductory panels flank the 8 central images, presenting a colorful abstraction of Chicago's Native American and botanical heritage ... " The 16 full-scale narrative panels each document an episode in Chicago's history. Beginning on the west side of the walkway, the first panel presents the arrival of Europeans by canoe at the portage between the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. Black-and-white text, presenting information such as event descriptions and dates, appears in the borders of each section, helping to carry the story along....
On each side 6 introductory panels flank the 8 central images, presenting a colorful abstraction of Chicago's Native American and botanical heritage ... " The 16 full-scale narrative panels each document an episode in Chicago's history. Beginning on the west side of the walkway, the first panel presents the arrival of Europeans by canoe at the portage between the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. Black-and-white text, presenting information such as event descriptions and dates, appears in the borders of each section, helping to carry the story along....
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Coordinates: 41°53'16"N 87°36'50"W
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