Opening day of Field Museum, June 2. 1 894. at the north entrance. Note sinnilarity between caryatid figures on small porch and the caryatid 

 figure of Henry Hering on p. 26 (right figure of pair). Note as well similarity of winged figure on pediment (partly visible above large statue) to 

 winged figures on p, 25, Statuary on the Palace of Fine Arts (shortly to become the Field Museum) was done by Philip Martlny, Hering's 

 teacher, Hering's caryatids, of which there are 8 on Field Museum's exterior and 24 on the Museum of Science and Industry, appear to be 

 very similar to, if not copies of Martiny's, The winged figures, of which there are 1 2 on the Museum of Science and Industry, seem equally 

 faithful to Martiny's, 



League. In 1900 and 1901 Hering was a student at 

 L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. While there he came 

 under the tutelage of Saint-Gaudens, remaining his 

 assistant until Saint-Gaudens' death in 1907. Hering 

 opened his own studio in New York in 1910. 



Selecting the Museum's Sculptor 



Sculptors were enquiring about doing the statuary for 

 the new building as early as 1911, long before construc- 

 tion began. Among the first to offer his talents was 

 24 Charles J. Mulligan, an instructor at the Art Institute 



of Chicago who had already done statues of Presidents 

 McKinley (1905) and Lincoln (1911) for Chicago park 

 memorials. Another applicant was the accomplished 

 Philip Martiny, Hering's former teacher. 



In August 1914 it was decided that the caryatids 

 were to be done by A. A. Weinman, designer of a U.S. 

 dime and half-dollar, and the interior work by Mary 

 Evelyn Longman, who had been an assistant of the re- 

 nowned Daniel Chester French. French, who had done 

 the Marshall Field memorial in Chicago's Graceland 

 Cemetery, was chosen to do a seated figure of Field to 

 be placed just in front of the Museum's north entrance. 



