Carrie Eliza Getty Mausoleum, (sculpture).

Carrie Eliza Getty Mausoleum, (sculpture).

Sullivan, Louis Henry, 1856-1924, sculptor.

Carrie Eliza Getty Mausoleum, (sculpture).

Mausoleum: stone; Doors: bronze.

Small square building with smooth lower walls of perfectly proportioned cubes. At the midpoint is a profusion of incised eight-pointed stars that rise up to a slab roof. On the front, in the middle of the wall, are two gates made of pierced bronze and inside is a door decorated in low relief with an eight-pointed star motif.

Homage -- Getty, Carrie Eliza

Allegory -- Place -- Extraterrestrial

Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago

Graceland Cemetery, 4001 North Clark Street, Getty Tomb, Chicago, Illinois 60613

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

Bach, Ira J. and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Bach, Ira J. and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg.357.

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