Eli Bates Fountain
Eli Bates Fountain, also known as Storks at Play, is a fountain and sculpture in the center of the formal garden outside Lincoln Park's Conservatory, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Description
The fountain is composed of a large, circular granite basin, two bronze storks with outstretched wings and water spewing water from their beaks, three figures that are half-boy and half-fish each holding unwieldy fishes, and bronze reeds and cattails at the center.
History
The fountain was installed in 1887 as a gift from Eli Bates, a wealthy Chicago business man. It was designed by famous artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and his assistant Frederick William MacMonnies, who later would design the famous central fountain, the Grand Barge of State, in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.