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Eternal Silence is a monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery. It is also known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death.[1] The statue is a bronze sculpture set on and backdropped by black granite. It was created by American sculptor Lorado Taft in 1909.
Dexter Graves Monument | |
U.S. Historic district Contributing property | |
Location | Uptown, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States |
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Built | 1909 |
Built by | Jules Bercham |
Sculptor | Lorado Taft |
Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
Part of | Graceland Cemetery (ID00001628) |
Added to NRHP | January 18, 2001 |
Eternal Silence is a monument in Graceland Cemetery to Dexter Graves. Graves led a group of thirteen families who moved to Chicago from Ohio in 1831.[2] He died in 1844, and the monument was created by sculptor Lorado Taft in 1909. Taft's son, Henry Graves, asked him to create it.[3] In Ada Bartlett Taft's 1946 Lorado Taft; Sculptor and Citizen, it was listed as one of his most important works.[4] Images of Eternal Silence have been used in other artworks, including works by Claes Oldenburg.[4] One folktale claims that if someone looks into the eyes of Eternal Silence's hooded figure, the viewer would be shown his or her own death.[1]
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