Lorado Taft, Sculptor

Gallery I- Sculpture in the Chicago Area; Gallery II - Sculpture at Champaign-Urbana; Gallery III- Other Illinois Sculpture; Gallery IV- Sculpture outside of Illinois

Biographical:

Most of Lorado Taft's personal papers and an extensive collection of photographs are housed in the archives at the Library of the University of Illinois; click on biographical to read the brief biography accompanying the Taft archives.

Bibliography:

Lorado Taft, Sculptor and Citizen, Taft, Ada Bartlett, Greensboro, NC (1950)[out of print].

Lorado In Paris, Weller, Allen, University of Illinois Press (1985). [Dr. Weller completed work on a second volume of Taft Biography (tentatively titled Lorado Taft, The Chicago Years) shortly before his death in November of 1997 ]

Lorado Taft, Public Sculptor, Garvey, Timothy, University of Illinois Press (1985).

Lewis Williams PH. D. Dissertation, University of Chicago.

Catalog of Work:[To be added later.]

Links to related sites:

Taft Archives at the University of Illinois

Taft Family Association

Lorado Taft's Midway Studios

The Eagle's Nest Art Colony

Lorado Taft's Dream Museum (Griffith Park)

Eagle's Nest Artist Colony (Lowden State Park)

This page is designed and maintained by Bertram Taft Smith (Omnismith@Compuserve.Com), in memory of his grandfather, Lorado Taft. Your comments are welcome.

Most recent revision January 6, 2000.