In this Book
- Lorado Taft: The Chicago Years
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
Returning to Chicago from France, Taft established a bustling studio and began a twenty-one-year career as an instructor at the Art Institute, succeeded by three decades as head of the Midway Studios at the University of Chicago. This triumphant era included ephemeral sculpture for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; a prolific turn-of-the-century period marked by the gold-medal-winning The Solitude of the Soul; the 1913 Fountain of the Great Lakes; the 1929 Alma Mater at the University of Illinois; and large-scale projects such as his ambitious program for Chicago's Midway with the monumental Fountain of Time. In addition, the book charts Taft's mentoring of women artists, including the so-called White Rabbits at the World's Fair, many of whom went on to achieve artistic success.
Lavishly illustrated with color images of Taft's most celebrated works, Lorado Taft: The Chicago Years completes the first major study of a great American artist.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- Chapter 1. Paris to Chicago
- pp. 8-29
- Chapter 2. Before the Fair
- pp. 30-65
- Chapter 4. After the Exposition
- pp. 86-107
- Chapter 5 Taft’s Students
- pp. 108-121
- Chapter 6 Taft as an Author
- pp. 122-131
- Chapter 9 Taft’s Roaring Twenties
- pp. 184-217
- Chapter 10 The Final Period
- pp. 218-235
- Appendix A. Lorado in Paris
- pp. 236-265
- Bibliography
- pp. 319-328
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2014