Axios: Chicago's Mag Mile hosts giant swimmer sculptures

Zoom in: Feuerman is best known for super-realistic sculptures of swimmers, a concept she developed at a turning point in her career and her life.

• In the late 1970s and early '80s Feuerman's marriage was falling apart at the same time galleries were rejecting her drawings of women's bodies, calling them too explicit.

• One day, as her kids swam in the water, she was sitting on the beach frustrated when her eyes locked on a woman emerging from the water.

• "She's wearing a red bathing suit, like a tank bathing suit, and she had her hair slicked back and water dripping down her face, and I said, 'Oh my god, that's it, I'm going to make a swimmer that looks like this lady,'" Feuerman tells Axios.