Horse Show Fountain

Horse Show Fountain, also called the Wright-Bock Fountain, is a concrete fountain-sculpture in Oak Park associated with sculptor Richard Bock and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, though their exact roles remain disputed. First erected in 1909 for the Oak Park Horse Show Association, it was designed to serve people, horses, and dogs and reflected a restrained, strongly horizontal design. After the original deteriorated badly, it was completely reconstructed in 1969, moved about 100 feet to Scoville Park, and rebuilt with new materials under the Oak Park Beautification Commission. Though now considered a replica rather than the original work, it remains significant to Oak Park’s early civic life and artistic history.

Chicago, Illinois · United States