Chicago's anonymous lakeshore art gallery

The Lakefront Anonymous Art Gallery
The Pictures

Carvings have accumulated along the lake for much of the last century; undisturbed their natural life span is many decades. Drawings and paintings, on the other hand, weather away in a matter of years. The fact that so many can still be found demonstrates that the lakefront remains a magnet for anonymous expression. All the pictures on this page will disappear prematurely, however, since they are in the path of the government's anti-erosion project.