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Taft, Lorado 1860-
Sculptor; born in Elmwood, Ill., April 29, 1860; graduated at the University of Illinois in 1879; student at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1880-83; instructor at the Chicago Art Institute since 1886; and lecturer on art in the University of Chicago since 1893.
He has produced several busts and medallions of prominent Americans; a statue of Schuyler Colfax; reliefs for the Michigan monument on the Gettysburg battlefield; and a statue of General Grant for Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was the decorator of the Horticultural Building in the World's Columbian Exposition; and is a member of the American Sculpture Society and the Western Society of Artists