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Man with Fish is a painted-bronze fountain sculpture by German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol, installed in 2001 by the southwest entrance to the Shedd Aquarium in Grant Park, Chicago. A man embraces a large fish that sprays water into a reflecting pool.
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Man with Fish
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A man in a shallow pool hugs an enormous fish that sprays water from its mouth. Man with Fish, by the German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol, was installed in 2001 beside the southwest entrance to the Shedd Aquarium in Grant Park on Chicago's Museum Campus. According to the Chicago Park District it was a gift to the aquarium from William N. Sick in honour of his wife, Stephanie.
The Park District describes the work as painted bronze, with water dripping from the fish's mouth into a reflecting pool whose floor carries colourful sea-life imagery. Art@Site, a public-art guide, lists it as 16 feet tall.
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A man and a large fish stand in a shallow pool at the aquarium's southwest entrance, with water spraying from the fish's mouth into the basin, whose floor carries sea-life imagery. The Park District lists it as an outdoor sculptural fountain.
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Outdoors in Grant Park, by the southwest entrance to the Shedd Aquarium, Museum Campus, Chicago. The Chicago Park District lists it as an outdoor artwork within Grant Park.
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