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124: 27: 159:, a Midwesterner born in 1860, who was active in the Chicago area from 1885 until his death in 1936. The accompanying photographs show the best-known version, carved in marble and dated 1914, which is among works of American sculpture on display in the Roger McCormick Memorial Court of the 263:"An Inventory of the Lorado Taft Papers at the University of Illinois Archives. Mounted Photograph Collection - A series of photographs of most of Lorado Taft's important works, including many of their construction and preliminary models" 188:
Two other versions are known to exist. One is a near-same-sized plaster cast, possibly as early as 1901 and probably one of the models shown in the 1911 photographs, now in the collection of American art at the
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During his lifetime Taft was friendly toward many Chicago-area artists and writers, including novelist
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pays tribute to Taft's "The Solitude of the Soul" in his contemporary sonnet of the same name.
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1911, show models of this work in Taft’s studio prior to the First World War.
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Art Institute of Chicago
Illinois
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Dayton Art Institute
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