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TAFT (186o— )  , American sculptor, was born at Elmwood, Illinois, on the 29th of April I86o . He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1879, and from 188o to 1883 studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris . In 1886 he became instructor at the Art Institute, Chicago, lecturing there, at the Chicago University, and elsewhere in the United States . He is the author of an exhaustive and authoritative work, The History of American Sculpture (1903) . Among his works, in addition to much 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) .