Ceres (1930)

">She sits on top of the Board of Trade, down LaSalle St. in Chicago. You can see for almost miles around because she's up so high - 300 feet, and counting. She's an Art Deco statue of Ceres, the Goddess of Grain, and you can't make out her detailing, but she's all percision made curves and sleek angles, a featureless face, a stylized Roman gown and crown of wheat, sitting on a platform of four small stairs. Sculpted by John Storrs, a student of Rodin, Ceres was planned in France, and shipped to Chicago in forty pieces, and assembled so we can see her in all her glory for the past seventy-four years. She's one of my favorites in city of well known sculptures. More later on the (Untitled) Sounding Sculpture.

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