Knowledge and Wonder, 1995 (Legler Branch Library, 115 S Pulaski Rd)
Debra Purden, collections manager for the city’s Public Art Program, calls Kerry James Marshall’s 14' x 24' painting (pictured, right) “one of the best investments” the program ever made, considering his work normally appears at highfalutin institutions such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The South Side resident created this depiction of kids and adults enjoying books and observing scientific phenomena when the library was renovated.
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