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Lion “in an attitude of defiance”

Lion “in an attitude of defiance”
Photo: Kim Scarborough, CC BY-SA 3.0 us (licence)

Lions is a pair of 1893 bronze sculptures by Edward Kemeys, installed outside of the main entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The sculptures are well-recognized public artworks. The sculptures were commissioned by Florence Lathrop Field as a gift to the museum in memory of her late husband Henry Field.

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