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LORADO TAFT (186o— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LORADO

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

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