Graceland Cemetery

Not all monuments conspicuously declare the name of the person celebrated or the artist who was hired to celebrate them. Here is a granite carving which practices such modesty.

 

The carving is by Lorado Taft who created Eternal Silence. It is in memory of Victor Lawson the publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Get it? The suggestion is that Larson was a crusader of his own kind, as he was.

 

A Virtual Tour of Chicago's Cemeteries
© 2002 Joe Kelley

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