Originally designed to be the companion sculpture to The Fountain of Time in Chicago, Lorado Taft’s Fountain of Creation sculpture was never completed. Instead of the planned 38 figures, only four were finished. They were then given as a gift to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Mrs. Ada Taft in 1937. The statues depict the Greek myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha. As the story goes, Zeus wanted to end the Bronze Age with a flood. Prometheus was able to foresee the flood and told his son Deucalion to…
