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LORADO See also:TAFT (186o— ) , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at Elmwood, See also:Illinois, on the 29th of See also:April I86o . He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1879, and from 188o to 1883 studied in the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, See also:Paris . In 1886 he became instructor at the See also:Art See also:Institute, See also:Chicago, lecturing there, at the Chicago University, and elsewhere in the See also:United States . He is the author of an exhaustive and authoritative See also:work, The See also:History of American See also:Sculpture (1903) . Among his See also:works, in addition to much See also:portraiture, are: " See also:Sleep of the See also:Flowers " and " Awakening of the Flowers," both made for the Columbian Exposition; " Despair " (1898) ; " Solitude of the Soul " (1900), and " See also:Fountain of the Lakes " (1903) . |
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